Jean Wagemans is Professor of Cognition, Communication, and Argumentation at the University of Amsterdam. He coordinates the research group LANCAR (www.lancar.org) at the ACLC, which includes the research line Multimodal Rhetoric. More info and publication downloads on
Emar Maier is associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He specializes in formal semantics and philosophy of language. Research interests include superlinguistics, (pictorial) narrative, discourse coherence, emoji, fiction, and quotation.
Lilian Bermejo-Luque is associate professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Granada, where she works in Argumentation Theory and Political Philosophy. Her research focuses on normative notions such as reason, justification, legitimacy, and political value.
https://wpd.ugr.es/~filolab/wordpress/quienes-somos-nueva/investigadores-garantes/lilian-bermejo-luque/
PhD candidate
Bernardo Rilla is a PhD candidate in the Facultuy of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He is working on the Evaluation of Multimodal Argumentation in the context of social media controversies especially on X (formerly Twitter). This project focusses on the misleading nature of these arguments and aims to provide potential guidelines/solutions to these from a normative and descriptive perspective making use of argumentation enabeling software.
His background is in Philosophy, Linguistics and Politics and his research interests are in commitment in argumentation, misleading argumentation, argumentation software and evidentiary value in argumentation .
https://research.rug.nl/nl/persons/bernardo-rilla/
Lotte van Poppel is assistant professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen and specializes in argumentation theory and metaphor theory. Her research interests include multimodal activism, criticism and resistance to argumentation, multi-party discussions, and metaphor in health communication.
PhD candidate
Eda Isil Sükan is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Her PhD project, The Analysis of Multimodal Argumentation, focuses on how arguments are communicated through short videos on Instagram. She has a background in linguistics and cognitive studies, and her research combines argumentation theory, multimodality, and formal semantics to study how audio-visual content argues on social media.
https://research.rug.nl/en/persons/eda-isil-s%C3%BCkan/
Janina Wildfeuer is associate professor in the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen - with a multi-faceted background in linguistics, semiotics, and discourse analysis. She has more than 15 years of experience in working with visual and audiovisual communication and has contributed to the theoretical and methodological development of multimodality studies. She works in qualitative as well as corpus-analytical and empirically oriented projects.
https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.wildfeuer/