Rhetoric in Society 2006

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Programme

Please note that each session is expected to last 20 minutes with an extra 5 minutes for discussion/questions. 

Tuesday 21st November 2006

14.00-16.00

Registration at Aalborg University, Kroghstraede 3, 9220 Aalborg East
(to find the place, take a look at this web page

16.00-18.00

Bus transfer from Aalborg University to reception at the Old City Hall in the centre of Aalborg.  Opening of conference by Vice Mayor Peter Reinau and Jeanne Strunck from the Academic Committee.

 

Wednesday 22nd November 2006 

8.45-9.00 Welcome and practical information by Lise-Lotte Holmgreen in Room 3.132

9.00-10.00

Plenary session in Room 2.132:
John Wilson, 'Social Theory and Social Reality': Habitus and The Rhetorical  Reconstruction of Policing in Northern Ireland

10.00-10.30

Coffee break

10.30-12.30  Paper sessions:
Room 2.132     
Torben Vestergaard 

RRoom 2.130
Lotte Dam  

Room 2.127
Birgitte Norlyk

10.30-11.00

Lena Gialabouki: The rhetoric of factuality in TV news: The case of direct discourse

Anders Horsbøl: Analysing rhetorics - communication experts in political journalism.

Noor Aireen Ibrahim: Rhetorical strategies in accounting blame and responsibility in the British press

11.00-11.30

Christine Isager: Under their thumb? Rhetorical criticism of self-aware reporters

Andres Könno: The rhetoric of mediated space: How to interpret communication over the planning of Talinn city?

Eva Palmans: Media in political campaigns in Burundi: From propaganda instruments to political watchdogs

11.30-12.00

Inger Lassen: Constructing hope – A study of inscribed and invoked mental processes

Thomas Ryberg, Anders Albrechtslund, Malene Charlotte Larsen: From moral panic to political decisiveness – discourses and rhetoric on youth and technology

Hilde van Belle: Realism and the rhetorical power of direct news access

12.00-12.30

Emma Vine: Presenting Irving: A rhetorical analysis of Irving trial news coverage

Rui Ramos: Intersections between science, media and climate change: A linguistic outlook

Jeanne Strunck: The political speech as conference opener – How rhetorical strategies advocate ideas and selves

12.30-14.00

Lunch break

14.00-15.30 Paper sessions:
Room 2.132     
Anders Horsbøl 

Room 2.130
Inger Lassen  

 

14.00-14.30

Karen L. Adams: Talking about families to create winning identities

Luna Beard & Stephanie Cawood: The rhetoric of the archetypes: The manifestation of trope in selected speeches of Nelson Mandela from a cognitive linguistics and rhetorical studies perspective

 

14.30-15.00

Peter Teo: Mandarinsing Singapore: A critical analysis of the rhetorical structures in Singapore’s ‘Speak Mandarin’ campaign

Diana George & Paula Mathieu: A rhetoric of dissent: Small press papers as agents of advocacy and action

 

15.00-15.30

Rachel Grainger: The visual rhetoric of the Conservative party’s 1979 general election poster and print advertising: A social semiotic analysis

Sine Just: European public debate – top-down calls for bottom-up processes

 

15.30-16.00

Coffee 

 

Thursday 23rd November 2006 

9.00-10.00

Plenary session:  Room 2.132
Anne Marie Bülow-Møller, I'm sorry, ok? - ok? Corporate apologia and image restoration

10.00-10.30

Coffee break

10.30-12.30 Paper sessions:
Room 2.132     
Jeanne Strunck 

Room 2.130
Inger Askehave 

Room 2.127
Bent Sørensen 

10.30-11.00

Willem Koetsenruijter: How numbers make news reliable

Bas Andeweg, & Jaap de Jong: Rhetorical intelligence of Dutch and Belgium engineers

Kelly Belanger: Unsisterly competition and feminist agency: Institutional discourses in the US movement for women in sport

11.00-11.30

Lise-Lotte Holmgreen: Communicating financials in the biotech industry: A strategic decision?

Shanti Sandaran: Compassion and war

Anne Christopher: A longitudinal study of the use of rhetorical figures and strategies in advertising slogans

11.30-12.00

Otilia Hutiu: Argumentative schemes or rhetoric strategies – a pragma-dialectical analysis of the discourse of negotiation

Constance Kampf: Approaching corporate social responsibility through Kenneth Burke’s notions of terministic screens and entitlement

Jens Kirk: Virtually persuaded

12.00-12.30

Jussi Lassila: Rhetorical perspectives into linguistic capital of Russian youth organizations

Birgitte Norlyk: Identity, story-telling and impression management in corporate communication

Walter Schønfelder: The limits of analyzing rhetoric in the analysis of organizational discourse

12.30-14.00

Lunch break

14.00-15.30 Paper sessions:
Room 2.132
Lise-Lotte Holmgreen

Room 2.130
Lotte Dam
 

14.00-14.30

Inger Askehave: Why choose University of Queensland? – The rhetoric of international student prospectuses

L. S. Venter: The rhetoric of educational policies

 

14.30-15.00

George Mavrogenis: Campaign slogans as a monitor of social change: The case of the third Greek democracy 1974-2004

José Plug: Apologies for the use of metaphors in political debates

 

15.00-15.30

Marta Rzepecka: Richard Nixon’s rhetorical confrontations with Communism

Bas Andeweg & Corrie de Haan: Speaking to an intelligent audience. Flattering as a rhetorical strategy.

 

15.30-16.00

Coffee

19.00-

Conference dinner at: il ristorante Fellini, Vesterå 13, 9000 Aalborg - phone No. 9811 3455 - www.fellini.dk

  

Friday 24th November 2006 

9.00-10.00

Plenary session: Maurice Charland, Piety and Impiety in Rhetorical Constitution

10.00-10.30

Coffee

10.30-11.30 Paper sessions:
Room 2.132     
Lotte Dam 

Room 2.130     
Jeanne Strunck 
 

10.30-11.00

Munif Fikri bin Zarirruddin Nordin:  Arabic rhetoric in Malay religious discourse

Torben Vestergaard: Evaluation and argumentation in two Danish GMO texts

 

11.00-11.30

Tetyana Sayenko: On the pragmatic and prosodic structure of an inspirational political address

Bas Andeweg & Jaap de Jong: All’s well, that ends well. The problem of the peroratio in Dutch departmental speeches

 

11.30-11.45

Break

11.45-12.15

Closing ceremony

 

Last edited: 02 Oct 2006