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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424">Dear colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424">we would like to invite you to a research talk by Fabrizio Macagno (Universidade Nova de Lisboa,Portugal). His lecture <b>“Preventing disagreements. The argumentative
structure of common ground manipulation”</b> will take place on 1</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424">st</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424"> December
at 16:15 in D2.2.228 (WU Campus). For an abstract, please see below.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424">Best wishes,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424">Nadine & Martina</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424">Abstract</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424">The disagreements between different parties on subject matters involving the public’s values and most uncritically accepted generalizations are normally described in philosophy and linguistics
as “deep disagreements” (Fogelin, 2005). This label refers to a disagreement that cannot be rationally resolved, regardless of the evidence and acceptance thereof by the parties. However, how do deep disagreements develop? The analysis of discourses on heated
topics shows how this inscrutable notion is in fact the result of argumentative strategies aimed at preventing a discussion on a specific topic, so that the actors involved do not need to acknowledge the weakness or higher acceptability (or probative force),
of a position. The analysis of discourse through the types of arguments used and the fallacies committed allows the detection of a phenomenon that lies beyond the concepts of truth and falsity – or mere false news – namely the manipulation of the common ground.
Common ground is a linguistic and philosophical notion used to refer to the condition of a pragmatic presupposition: a proposition can be taken for granted when it belongs to or is not in conflict with and is retrievable from, the information that the interlocutor
holds and accepts as non-controversial. By taking for granted information or evaluations that are not shared by (all) the interlocutors, the speaker is defining a common ground that has the features opposed to the ones that it needs to serve. The speaker is
creating a ground that cannot be shared by a specific part of the audience, and thus limits and avoids the possibility of a dialogue – and even a disagreement. The types of fallacies and arguments allow for detecting of different ways in which the common ground
is (or can be) manipulated, bringing to light distinct strategies and possible effects. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424">Fabrizio Macagno</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424"> is an auxiliary professor of philosophy at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Portugal, where he teaches courses of Strategic Argumentation, Teaching philosophy, and Rhetoric of advertising. He is conducting research in the field of Argumentation and Philosophy of Language, which applies to Education, Medical communication, and Legal
interpretation.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Univ. Prof. Dr. Nadine Thielemann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">homepage:
<a href="https://research.wu.ac.at/de/persons/nadine-thielemann-8"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://research.wu.ac.at/de/persons/nadine-thielemann-8</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">academia:
</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><a href="http://wuvienna.academia.edu/NadineThielemann"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">http://wuvienna.academia.edu/NadineThielemann</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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