"Rhetoric and cognition: Towards a relevance theoretic account of argumentative effectiveness". International Conference 'Encuentros de Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social V' (EPICS V), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, March 14-16. [www]
(accepted) "Why are fallacies effective? Cognitive aspects of argument processing". International conference 'Critical Approaches to Discourse Analyses Across Disciplines (CADAAD) 2012, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, July 4-6.
(accepted) with Chris Hart: "Trust based on bias: A cognitive and evolutionary treatment of the rhetorical effectiveness of the ad verecundiam and ad populum fallacies". International Conference 4th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, August 10-12.
2011
with Marcin Lewinski: "Why and how do we deal with straw men?". International Conference 'Communication and Cognition 2011: Manipulation, Persuasion and Deception in Language". University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, January 26-28. [www]
"Is manipulative communication non-cooperative?" [pdf]. International PRagmatics Association 12th Conference, Manchester, July 3-8. [www]
2010
with Alain Rihs: "Metaphors and consent in political discourse: a pragmatic view on some perlocutionary issues". International conference 'Critical Approaches to Discourse Across Disciplines' (CADAAD) 2010. University of Lodz, Poland, September 13-15.[www]
"Relevance for effectiveness: cognitive underpinnings of argument processing" [pdf]. 7th International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) Conference. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 29 - July 2. [www]
with Didier Maillat: "The cognitive determinants of manipulation". Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models III (UICM3), Brussels, February 5-7. [www]
2008
with Didier Maillat: "Can intention-based theories of meaning construction account for uncooperative communication?". International conference 'Critical Approaches to Discourse Across Disciplines' (CADAAD) 2008. University of Hertfordshire, UK, July 10-12.[www]
with Didier Maillat: "Constraints on contextual selection: Pragmatic views on manipulation". 4th Lodz Symposium: New developments in linguistic pragmatics. Lodz, Poland, May 15-18.
with Louis de Saussure: "Can implicitly derived contents integrate a commitment store? A cognitive pragmatic account of commitment assessment". International workshop IADA 2008: Word meaning in argumentative dialogue, Milan, Italy, May 15-17. [www]
2007
with Patrick Morency: "Commitment and attitudes in reported speech". International Conference 'IPRA' (International PRagmatics Association), Göteborg, Sweden, July 9-13. [www]
with Patrick Morency and Louis de Saussure: "What did you say he implied? Inferring commitment from explicit and/or implicit markers in reported speech". International Conference 'The notion of commitment in linguistics', Antwerp, Belgium, January 11-13.
2006
"From Pragma-Dialectics to Pragma-Semantics: Can Argumentation Theory and Relevance Theory be Interfaced?". International Conference 'Critical Approaches to Discourse Across Disciplines (CADAAD)', University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, June 30.[www]
COMMUNICATIONS:
2009
"Pragmatique de la non-coopération: problèmes théoriques". Groupe de Recherche en Sémantique et Pragmatique. Université de Neuchâtel. Neuchâtel, November 25. [pdf]
"Communication manipulatoire et non-coopération: quelques pistes pour une étude pragmatique". Journée jeunes chercheurs LALIC, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers, France, June 11-12. [pdf]
2008
"Manipulation through contextual constraining. A pragmatic account". Language, Ideology and Power Research Group, Lancaster University, June 9. [pdf]
2007
with Patrick Morency: "Inferences on commitment from verbal prefaces in reported speech". CUSO Doctoral School in Language studies, Leysin, March 19-22. [abstract]
2005
"Pragmatique, modularité et métareprésentation". Research day SNF, project 'Usages non descriptifs des expressions temporelles', University of Neuchâtel, December 16.
"La manipulation dans les discours péronistes (1943-1955): Aspects propositionnels et non-propositionnels". Internal seminar, research in linguistics, University of Neuchâtel, June 1st.
La manipulation dans les discours péronistes (1943-1955): Stratégies de manipulation linguistiques et non-linguistiques". Training course for high school tutors, High School "Les Coudriers", Geneva, May.