Connectives and Straw Men. Experimental approach on French and English

Schumann, Jennifer; Zufferey, Sandrine (6 June 2020). Connectives and Straw Men. Experimental approach on French and English. Proceedings of the OSSA Conference, 12, pp. 1-15. University of Windsor: OSSA Conference Archive

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In this paper, we present experiments designed to assess the role of causal connectives with an attributive meaning (e.g. since and puisque) on the acceptability of straw man fallacies. Our results show that connectives play a role for the detection of straw man fallacies by increasing readers’ awareness to the speaker’s persuasive intent, thus creating a forewarning effect. We also uncover a crucial difference between causal connectives both within and across languages. Taken together, our experiments plead in favor of conducting fine-grained analyses of connectives in different languages in order to deepen our understanding of their role for argumentation.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of French Language and Literature > Linguistic Studies 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of French Language and Literature
Graduate School:	Graduate School of the Humanities (GSH)
UniBE Contributor:	Schumann, Jennifer, Zufferey, Sandrine
Subjects:	400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 440 French & related languages
ISSN:	2371-8323
Publisher:	OSSA Conference Archive
Language:	English
Submitter:	Jennifer Schumann
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2020 10:48
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:39
Uncontrolled Keywords:	argumentation, causal connectives, cross-linguistic perspective, empirical validation, forewarning effect, straw man fallacy, subjectivity
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/144522