Edited volumes and special issues of journals

1. Lewiński, M, Cepollaro, B., Witek, M. & Oswald, S. (2023). Norms of Public Argument: A Speech Act Perspective. Special issue of Topoi.

2. Oswald, S. 2022. Pragmatics and argumentation. Special issue of Languages.

3. Oswald, S., Lewiński, M., Greco, S. & Villata, S. 2022. The Pandemic of Argumentation. Cham: Springer.

4. Oswald, S., Greco, S., Miecznikowski, J, Pollaroli, C. & Rocci, A. 2020. Argumentation and meaning. Semantic and pragmatic reflexions (Special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1).

5. Pollaroli, C., Greco, S., Oswald, S. Miecznikowski, J. & Rocci, A. 2019. Rhetoric and Language: emotions and style in argumentative discourse (Special issue of the journal Informal Logic 39(4).

6. Herman, T., Jacquin, J. & Oswald, S. 2018. Les mots de l’argumentation. Berne: Peter Lang.

7. Oswald, S. & Maillat, D. 2018. Argumentation and Inference. Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation, Fribourg 2017, volume I. London: College Publications.

8. Oswald, S. & Maillat, D. 2018. Argumentation and Inference. Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation, Fribourg 2017, volume II. London: College Publications.

9. Oswald, S., Herman, T. & Jacquin, J. 2018. Argumentation and Language – Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations. Cham: Springer.

10. Herman, T. & Oswald, S. 2014. Rhétorique et cognition. Perspectives théoriques et stratégies persuasives. Rhetoric & Cognition. Theoretical perspectives and persuasive strategies. Berne: Peter Lang. [open-access]

11. Maillat, D. & Oswald, S. 2013. Biases and constraints in communication: argumentation, persuasion and manipulation. Special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics 59(B). 

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

1. Zenker, F., van Laar, J.A., Cepollaro, B., Gâţă, A., Hinton, M., King, C. G., Larson, B., Lewiński, M., Lumer, C., Oswald, S., Pichlak, M., Scott, B. D., Urbański, M. & Wagemans, J. H. M. 2023. "Norms of Public Argumentation and the Ideals of Correctness and Participation". Argumentation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-023-09598-6. 

2. De Oliveira Fernandes, D. & Oswald, S. 2023. "On the Rhetorical Effectiveness of Implicit Meaning—A Pragmatic Approach". Languages 8(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010006. 

3. Oswald, S. 2023. "Pragmatics for argumentation". Journal of Pragmatics 203: 144-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.12.001. 

4. Oswald, S. 2022. "Insinuation is committing". Journal of Pragmatics 198: 158-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.07.006. 

5. Koszowy, M., Oswald, S., Budzynska, K, Konat, B. & Gygax, P. 2022. "A Pragmatic Account of Rephrase in Argumentation. Linguistic and Cognitive Evidence". Informal Logic 42(1): 49-82. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v42i1.7212. 

6. Wharton, T., Bonard, C., Dukes, D., Sander, D. & Oswald, S. 2021. “Relevance and emotion”. Journal of Pragmatics 181: 259-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.06.001. 

7. Oswald, S. 2020. “Pragmatique cognitive, argumentation et perlocution”. Argumentation et Analyse du Discours 25. https://doi.org/10.4000/aad.4793

8. Schumann, J., Zufferey, S. & Oswald, S. 2020. “The Linguistic Formulation of Fallacies Matters: The Case of Causal Connectives”. Argumentation 35: 361-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-020-09540-0.

9. Oswald, S., Greco, S., Miecznikowski, J., Pollaroli, C. & Rocci, A. 2020. “Argumentation and meaning”. Journal of Argumentation in Context 9(1): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.00005.osw.

10. Schumann, J., Zufferey, S. & Oswald, S. 2019. “What makes a straw man acceptable? Three experiments assessing linguistic factors”. Journal of Pragmatics 141: 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.12.009.

11. Oswald, S. & Rihs, A. 2018. “De l’épistémique au déontique : un usage du conditionnel en contexte argumentatif”. Langue Française 200: 135-146. https://doi.org/10.3917/lf.200.0135.

12. Oswald, S. 2015. “Es muy fácil pasar por alto lo que no se está buscando: herramientas pragmático-cognitivas para el análisis de la influencia comunicativa”. Logos: Revista de Lingüística, Filosofía y Literatura 25 (2), 196-215. https://doi.org/10.15443/RL2519.

13. Oswald, S. & Rihs, A. 2014. “Metaphor as argument: rhetorical and epistemic advantages of extended metaphors”. Argumentation 28(2): 133-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-013-9304-0.

14. Lewiński, M. & Oswald, S. 2013. “When and how do we deal with straw men? A normative and cognitive pragmatic account”. Journal of Pragmatics 59(B): 164-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.05.001.

15. Maillat, D. & Oswald, S. 2013. “Editorial”. Journal of Pragmatics 59(B): 137-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.08.014.

16. Oswald, S. 2011. “From interpretation to consent: arguments, beliefs and meaning”. Discourse Studies 13(6): 806-814. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1461445611421360e.

17. Saussure, L. de & Oswald, S. 2009. “Argumentation et engagement du locuteur: pour un point de vue subjectiviste”. Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique française 29: 215-243.

18. Maillat, D. & Oswald, S. 2009. “Defining manipulative discourse: the pragmatics of cognitive illusions”. International Review of Pragmatics 1(2): 348-370. https://doi.org/10.1163/187730909X12535267111651.

19. Saussure, L. de & Oswald, S. 2008. “L’engagement comme notion cognitive associée au destinataire”. L’analisi linguistica e letteraria XVI(1): 475-488.

20. Morency, P., Oswald, S. & Saussure, L. de. 2008. “Explicitness, implicitness and commitment attribution: a cognitive pragmatic approach”. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 22: 197-219. https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.22.10mor.

21. Oswald, S. 2007a. “Towards an interface between pragma-dialectics and relevance theory”. Pragmatics & Cognition 15(1): 179-201. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.15.1.12osw.

22. Oswald, S. 2007b. “Argumentation and cognition: can pragma-dialectics interplay with pragma-semantics?”. CADAAD Journal 1: 148-165.

Book chapters

1. Herman, T. & Oswald, S. (2022). " Expert ethos, (de-)legitimation, and ethotic straw men as discursive resources for conspiracy theories". In Demata, M., Zorzi, V. & Zottola, A. (eds). Conspiracy Theory Discourses. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 99-120. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.98.05her 

2. Oswald, S., Lewiński, M., Greco, S. & Villata, S. 2022. "Introduction: The Pandemic of Argumentation". In Oswald, S., Lewiński, M., Greco, S. & Villata, S. (eds). The Pandemic of Argumentation. Cham: Springer, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91017-4_1 

3. Oswald, S. 2021. “Pragmática y manipulación”. In Escandell-Vidal, V., Amenos Pons, J. & Ahern, A.  (eds). Pragmática. Madrid: Akal, 408-426.

4. Herman, T. & Oswald, S. 2021. “Everybody knows there is something odd about ad populum arguments”. In Boogaart, R., Jansen, H. & van Leeuwen, M. (eds), The Language of Argumentation, Cham: Springer, 305-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52907-9_16.

5. Oswald, S. & Herman, T. 2019. “Give the standard treatment of fallacies a chance! Cognitive and rhetorical insights into fallacy processing”. In van Eemeren, F. & Garssen, B. (eds), From Argument Schemes to Argumentative Relations in the Wild. A Variety of Contributions to Argumentation Theory, Cham: Springer, 41-62. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28367-4_4.

6. Herman, T., Jacquin, J. & Oswald, S. 2018. “Introduction”. In Herman, T., Jacquin, J. & Oswald, S. (eds), Les mots de l’argumentation, Berne: Peter Lang, 7-25.

7. Rihs, A. & Oswald, S. 2018. “Quand l’hypothèse devient vérité: une approche pragmatique de certains effets rhétoriques du conditionnel”. In Herman, T., Jacquin, J. & Oswald, S. (eds). Les mots de l’argumentation. Bern: Peter Lang, 159-181.

8. Oswald, S., Herman, T. & Jacquin, J. 2018. “Introduction”. In Oswald, S., Herman, T. & Jacquin, J. (eds),  Argumentation and language – Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations. Cham: Springer, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73972-4_1.

9. Oswald, S. & Maillat, D. 2018. “Deceptive puns: The pragmatics of humour in puns”. In Noemi Padilla, C. (ed.), Perspectivas sobre el significado. Desde lo biológico a lo social. La Serena: Editorial Universidad de la Serena, 145-171.

10. Oswald, S. 2016a. “Rhetoric and cognition. Pragmatic constraints on argument processing”. In Padilla Cruz, M. (ed). Relevance Theory. Recent developments, current challenges and future directions. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 261-285.

11. Oswald, S. 2016b. “Commitment attribution and the reconstruction of arguments”. In Paglieri, F., Bonelli, L. & Felletti, S. (eds). The psychology of argument: Cognitive approaches to argumentation and persuasion. London: College Publications, 17-32.

12. Oswald, S. & Herman, T. 2016. “Argumentation, conspiracy and the Moon: A rhetorical-pragmatic analysis”. In Danesi, M. & Greco, S. (eds). Case studies in discourse analysis. Munich: Lincom Europa, 295-330.[pdf]

13. Oswald, S., Maillat, D. & Saussure, L. de. 2016. “Deceptive and uncooperative verbal communication”. In Rocci, A. & Saussure, L. de (eds). Verbal Communication. Handbook of Communication Science, vol 3. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 509-534. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255478-026.

14. Herman, T. & Oswald, S. “Introduction”. In Herman, T. & Oswald, S. (eds). Rhétorique et cognition. Perspectives théoriques et stratégies persuasives. Rhetoric & Cognition. Theoretical perspectives and persuasive strategies. Berne: Peter Lang, 1-20.

15. Oswald, S. 2014. “It is easy to miss something you are not looking for: A pragmatic account of covert communicative influence for (critical) discourse analysis”. In Hart, C. & Cap, P. (eds), Contemporary Studies in Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Bloomsbury, 97-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472593634.ch-004 

16. Oswald, S. & Lewiński. 2014. “Pragmatics, cognitive heuristics and the straw man fallacy”. In Herman, T. & Oswald, S. (eds). Rhétorique et cognition: perspectives théoriques et stratégies persuasives / Rhetoric & Cognition: theoretical perspectives and persuasive strategies. Bern: Peter Lang, 313-343.

17. Maillat, D. & Oswald, S. 2011. “Constraining context. A pragmatic account of cognitive manipulation”. In Hart, C. (ed). Critical discourse studies in context and cognition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.43.04mai.

Conference proceedings

1. De Oliveira Fernandes, D., Oswald, S. & Gygax, P. (forth.). “Insinuated vs. Asserted ad hominem: an experimental approach to their rhetorical effectiveness”. Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Argumentation, Rome 2022. London: College Publications.

2. Oswald, S. 2018. “Pragmatic inference and argumentative inference”. In Oswald, S. & Maillat, D. (eds). Argumentation and inference. Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation, Fribourg 2017. London: College Publications, 615-629.

3. Ozols, D., Maillat, D. & Oswald, S. 2016. “Repetition as context selection constraint: A study in the cognitive underpinnings of persuasion”. In Mohammed, D. & Lewiński, M. (eds), Argumentation and Reasoned Action: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon, 2015. Vol. I. London: College Publications, 547-566.

4. Oswald, S. 2016a. “What about perlocution? Commentary on Lewiński’s How to conclude practical argument in a multi-party debate”. In Mohammed, D. & Lewiński, M. (eds), Argumentation and Reasoned Action: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon, 2015. Vol. I. London: College Publications, 421-429.

5. Oswald, S. 2016b. “Conspiracy and bias: argumentative features and persuasiveness of conspiracy theories”. In Bondy, P., & Benacquista, L. (eds). Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 18-21 May 2016. Windsor, ON: OSSA, 1-16.

6. Oswald, S. 2016c. “Commentary on “Eliminating Gender-, Racial- and Age-Biases in Medical Diagnostic Reasoning”. In Bondy, P., & Benacquista, L. (eds). Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 18-21 May 2016. Windsor, ON: OSSA, 1-8.

7. Oswald, S. & Hart, C. 2013. “Trust based on bias: Cognitive constraints on source-related fallacies”. In Mohammed, D., & Lewiński, M. (eds). Virtues of Argumentation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 22-26 May 2013. Windsor, ON: OSSA, 1-13.

8. Oswald, S. 2013. “Commentary on: Frank Zenker’s “Know thy biases! Bringing argumentative virtues to the classroom””. In Mohammed, D., & Lewiński, M. (eds). Virtues of Argumentation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 22-26 May 2013. Windsor, ON: OSSA, 1-7.

PhD thesis

Oswald, S. 2010. Pragmatics of uncooperative and manipulative communication. PhD dissertation, ms., University of Neuchâtel, 423p. [open access]