My experimental paper with Jennifer Schumann on reformulation through different types of intensification was just published in Informal Logic.
Schumann, J., & Oswald, S. (2026). The Effect of Intensifications Through Rephrasing on Argument Persuasiveness. Informal Logic, 46(2), 209–245. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v46i2.10250 

The kick-off workshop of the DARLING project took place on 29-30 April 2026, in the presence of all partners and Swiss colleagues.

The first of 2 special issues on experimental approaches to argumentation has been published in the journal Argumentation (vol. 40, issue 1), with contributions by Francesca Ervas, Giulia Zucca & Oriana Mosca, Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Ermioni Seremeta, Monique Flecken, Menno Reijven & Jean Wagemans, Ramy Younis, Daniel de Oliveira Fernandes & myself.

My new research project DARLING (Deniability in ARgumentation and LINGuistics) has just started. This 4-year project funded by the Swiss National Fund, with 2 PhD candidates, Bruna Paz Schmid and Lou Odermatt, will look at the way people deny what others have taken them to mean, from a complementary perspective rooted in corpus linguistics and experimental pragmatics.

I have given a keynote lecture at the B-Hu-Well conference, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 10-11 October 2025

Publication of the book Quand dire, c'est influencer. Psychologie de la persuasion, co-authored with Sandrine Zufferey and Pascal Gygax, Editions Sciences Humaines.

The SNSF has awarded me a grant for a 4-year research project on deniability (DARLING: Deniability in ARumentation and LINGuistics), scheduled to start on January 1st, 2026.

Together with my research team we attended the 5th European Conference on Argumentation (ECA2025, Warsaw University of Technology, 23-26 September 2025), where we convened a panel on experimental approaches to argumentation (with Jennifer Schumann) and gave a talk on the conceptual/procedural meaning distinction in multimodal argumentation (with Ramy Younis).

All three videos of science popularisation on pragmatics (in French) are available on my YouTube channel

I have been invited to give a keynote talk at the First International Conference on Pragmatics and Argumentation, to be held in Guangzhou, China (30.11-01.12.2024)

I have given a keynote talk at the 10th JADIS-CIED conference at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal (4-6.11.2024)

I have been awarded the honorary title of Titular Professor by the University of Fribourg (01.11.2024)

The 1st of 3 popularisation videos on pragmatics (in French) is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjeQG4biRw0 

I wrote an editorial on rhetorical considerations about the Trump-Harris presidential debate for Le Temps (16.09.2024)

I was interviewed by the Swiss National Radio (RTS) for the show Tout un monde on verbal violence (18.07.2024)

The 4th edition of the Argumentation and Language conference (ARGAGE2024), which we organised together with my team (Jennifer Schumann, Daniel de Oliveira Fernandes & Ramy Younis) took place at the University of Fribourg (25-27 June)

A special issue of the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, titled "Pragmatic perspectives on disagreement", and co-edited with Jennifer Schumann, was published.