Rhetoric
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Research domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
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Rhetorical research increases with the growth of the field. At the moment, the rhetorical research group consists of professor Brigitte Mral, assistant professor Marie Gelang, Phd Helena Hansson-Nylund and three PhD students: Linus Pentikäinen, Waldemar Petermann and Linda Söderlindh. From autumn 2018, the group will be expanded with the associate professors Assimakis Tseronis and Noah Roderick. The current research explores areas such as crisis communication, non-verbal communication, visual rhetorics, forensic rhetoric and rhetoric and gender.
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- Crisis Communication in Practice
- Nonverbal behaviour as argumentation in election campaign interviews
- Rhetorical actio: the power of body language
- Rhetorical Aspects on Crisis Communication
- Rhetorical messages about decontamination after a nuclear accident
- Stance that trigger conflict escalation
- The visual rhetoric of store-window mannequins
- To make sense of the inconceivable - press conferences of the Swedish government in connection the tsunami emergency 2004