Jens E. Kjeldsen er utdannet ved Institut for retorik ved Københavns Universitet. Han er professor i retorikk og visuell kommunikasjon ved Institutt for informasjons- og medievitenskap (UiB), samt professor i retorikk ved Södertörn Högskola. Kjeldsen leder retorikkprogrammet ved Universitetet i Bergen.
Tid: 16.04.2009 12.15 – 14.00
Sted: Lite Auditorium, Lauritz Meltzers hus (the Social Science Building at Fosswinckelsgate 6).
The world renowned researcher Frans van Eemeren from University of Amsterdam will visit Bergen and talk about: “Fallacies as derailments of strategic manoeuvring: Reconnecting dialectic and rhetoric”
Frans H. van Eemeren is Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam. Frans van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst (1944-2000) are the founders of the influential pragma-dialectical argumentation theory. This theory systematically combines normative insights from philosophical dialectics and dialogue logic with pragmatic insights from speech act theory, Gricean theory and discourse analysis. The pragma-dialectical theory is applied in the analysis, evaluation and production of oral and written argumentative discourse.