at the Porter Institute
The Department of French
The Department of English
cordially invite you to a conference
Analyzing Discourse and Argumentation Today:
Contemporary European Trends
Tel-Aviv University, June 5-6, 2011
Sunday, June 5th, Gilman Building, room 496
9.30: Greetings
Dr. Orly Lubin, TAU, Chair of the Porter Institute
Prof. Shirley Sharon-Zisser, TAU, Chair of the Department of English
Prof. Ruth Amossy (TAU) and Prof. Roselyne Koren (Bar Ilan), Coordinators of ADARR
What does “Analysis” mean?
10.00-10.45: Norman Fairclough(Lancaster, UK): The Nature of Analysis in CDA, and the Case for Incorporating Analysis and Evaluation of Argumentation
10.45-11.30: DominiqueMaingueneau (Paris-12, France): What is Discourse Analysis looking for?
11.30-12.00: Coffee Break
12.00- 12.20: Respondent: Thierry Herman (Lausanne and Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
12. 20- 13.00: Discussion
13.00: Lunch
Is there an Argumentative Turn of Discourse Analysis?
15.00-15.30: Isabela Ietcu-Fairclough (Bucharest, Romania and Lancaster, UK): Analyzing Practical Reasoning in Political Discourse
15.30-16.00: Ruth Amossy (TAU, Israel):Integrating Argumentation in Discourse Analysis
16.00-16.20: Respondent: Elda Weizman (BarIlan, Israel)
16.20-17.00: Discussion
17.00-17.15: Coffee Break
17.15-17.45: Raphael Micheli (Lausanne, Switzerland): Toward a Discursive Approach of Argumentation: Goals and Methodological Principles
17.45-18.15: Emmanuelle Danblon (ULB, Belgium): Is Rhetoric a Discipline?
18.15-18.35: Respondent: Galia Yanoshevsky (Bar Ilan, Israel)
18.35- 19.15: Discussion
Monday, June 6th, Naftali Buildingof Social Sciences, room 527.
Analyzing Discourse: Social Uses and Scholarly Responsibility
9.30-10.00: Jérôme Bourdon (TAU, Israel): The Reasons and Emotions of Cosmopolitan Research
10.00-10.30: Marianne Doury (CNRS, France): Descriptive vs. Militant Perspective: A Contrastive Approach to Political Discourse Analysis
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00- 11.30: Eithan Orkibi (TAU, Israel): From Gatekeepers to Wall Breakers: Scholars and Activists in Social Movement Rhetoric
11.30- 12.00: Roselyne Koren (Bar Ilan, Israel): Crossing the red line between Description and Ethical Commitment
12.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00: Round Table with Dominique Maingueneau (Paris-12, France),
Norman Fairclough (Lancaster, UK), Jürgen Siess (Caen, France and TAU, Israel), Orly Lubin (TAU, Israel), Shirley Sharon-Zisser (TAU, Israel)
15.00-15.45: Discussion
The conference will be in English
The conference is sponsored by the Chair for Swiss-Israel Cultural Co-operation,the Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, the French Institute, the Perelman Foundation in Brussels.