Rhetoric
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- 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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Active projects
- 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 rhetoric of Swedish disability organisations
- 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
Completed projects
- Developing Intercultural Competencies through Collaborative Rhetoric
- Rhetorical Education and the Democratic Mission of the School: Preparing Students for Academic and Civic Life
- Sustainable dialogue? Rhetoric in meetings on nuclear waste management
- The communication of Swedish nuclear power plants to the public
- The Sweden Democrats 2002-2010. A rhetorical study of public debate and argumentation..
- Women´s Rhetorics in South Africa and Sweden: a Comparative Study in democratic deliberation