This is the homepage for the project "The Normativity of Multimodal Arguments", funded by an NWO Open Competition L grant at the University of Groningen.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Workshop 11 June 2026: PICTURING NORMS FOR ARGUMENTATION
on the occasion of Bita Heshmati’s defence of her thesis Visual Argument: Concepts and Methods for Analyzing the Argumentative Uses of Images.
Date: 11 June 2026, Location: University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy, Oude Boteringestraat 52, Groningen, Room Omega.
14:00 – 14:30 Prof. dr. Sara Greco (Università della Svizzera Italiana) Argumentative portraits. Images of garment workers in digital activists’ argumentation on sustainable fashion
14:30 – 15:00 Dr. Gabriela Kišiček (University of Zagreb) Auditory Arguments in Legal Discourse
15:00 – 15:30 Tea
15:30 – 16:00 Dr. Roosmaryn Pilgram (Leiden University) Strategic Use of Third-Party References in Argumentative Discourse
16:00 – 16:30 Dr. Emar Maier (University of Groningen) Dogwhistle emojis are literally just pictures
16:30 – 17:15 Discussion on Evidence in Multimodal Argumentation
Abstracts can be found here.
This workshop is made possible with financial support from the Center for Language and Cognition and the NWO-funded project The Normativity of Multimodal Argumentation.
Attendance: Please notify your attendance, in person only, by sending a message to the organisers Lotte van Poppel and Jan Albert van Laar at j.a.van.laar@rug.nl.
workshop 18 June 2026: PRAGMATIC INSIGHTS INTO MULTIMODAL ARGUMENTATION
Location: Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy, Room Omega
12:00 - 13:00 - Chi-Hé Elder (Norwich, University of East Anglia) - Meaning through misunderstanding: Inference, intention, and the negotiation of accountability
13:00 - 13:40 - lunch
13:40 - 14:20 - Bart Verheij (University of Groningen) - TBA
14:20 - 15:00 - Jean Wagemans (Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam) - Implicitness in multimodal argumentation
15:00 - 15:20 - Tea
15:20 - 15:50 - Marta Trutalli (Università della Svizzera Italiana) - Images that speak: A multimodal study of women garment workers in digital activism concerning sustainable fashion
15:50 - 16:20 - Bernardo Rilla (University of Groningen) Exploring the Reach of Pragma-Dialectics in Multimodal Contexts
16:20 - 16:40 - tea
16:40 - 17:10 - Marta Marcora (University of Groningen) - Critical Questions and Endoxa in the AMT
17:10 - 17:40 - Eda Sükan (University of Groningen) Bridging Pragma-Dialectics and Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Reconstructing Arguments from Short-Form Videos
Abstracts can be found here.
This workshop is made possible with financial support from the NWO-funded project The Normativity of Multimodal Argumentation.
Attendance: Please notify your attendance, in person only, by sending a message to Jan Albert van Laar at j.a.van.laar@rug.nl.
PAST EVENTS
Workshop 11 and 12 December 2025, University of Salzburg. Multimodal Argumentation in Everyday Conversation & the Media: Putting Methods to the Test
Kick-off workshop 30 September 2025: THE NORMATIVITY OF MULTIMODAL ARGUMENTATION #1
Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, Room Gamma
14:00 Welcome
14:15 Jean Wagemans - Implicitness in multimodal argumentation: The dragonfly example
14:30 Lilian Bermejo-Luque - Two Notions of Argumentative Normativity
14:45 Janina Wildfeuer
15:00 Jan Albert van Laar – Multimodal Debate
15:15 Coffee & cake break
15:45 Lotte van Poppel
16:00 Eda Sükan
16:15 Bernardo Rilla
16:30 Event planning
Starting date: 1 August 2025.
