Mehmet Ali Uzelgun

• PhD
• Researcher // Invited Professor at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa // Universidade Nova de Lisboa

We argue that the evaluation of multimodal arguments needs to take into account the semiotic resources used to communicate them as well as the context in which they are produced and interpreted. Thus, in addition to the critical questions pertaining to the scheme that help assess the internal cogency of the argument and thereby its reasonableness,...

Y. Erolova, E. Tzaneva, V. Ivanova, J. Popcheva (eds.) (2022). ‘Between the Worlds: Narratives and Notions of Pandemics’. Vol. 4. Sofia: IEFSEM & Paradigma. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic challenges, new fields of study are intertwining and emerging to explore the causes, responses, prevention, coping, and consequences of this worldwide i...

Online toxicity refers to a spectrum of problematic communicative phenomena that unfold in various ways on social media platforms. Most of the current efforts to contain it focus on computational techniques to detect online toxicity and build a regulatory architecture. In this paper, we highlight the importance of focusing on the social phenomena o...

https://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/2425 Editorial to OBS 2023 Special Issue This OBS* Special Issue has been organized within the remit of the EUMEPLAT research consortia, which is subordinate to the theme: European Media Platforms – Assessing Positive and Negative Externalities for European Culture. The EUMEPLAT Project is funded...

Non-fictional narratives have an open-ended character that projects roles and values to those who participate in them. Narrative participation, in turn, entails narrative assessment and identification processes, through which adherence to values and positions may fail or be achieved. In the analysis of interviews with university students across Tur...

https://www.eumeplat.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/D5.3_Assessing-Externalities_Toxic-Debate-and-Pluralistic-Values.pdf Toxic Speech, Online debates, Social media platforms, Europeanisation, Norms, Civility, Pluralism

Competitive debate formats practiced around the world offer bottom-up insights - across cultures - to emergent problems in the design of argumentative encounters as well as to the application of the procedural rationality that is presupposed in many normative perspectives to communication. In an effort to counter the top-down approach taken by most...

The aim of this paper is to highlight an interdependence between procedural and agential norms that undermines their neat separation when appraising argumentation. Drawing on the munāẓara tradition, we carve a space for sequencing in argumentation scholarship. Focusing on the antagonist’s sequencing of critical moves, we identify each sequence’s co...

This OBS* Special Issue results from the EUMEPLAT Project (European media platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European culture), funded by the Horizon 2020 SC6 - Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies, and coordinated by Prof. Andrea Miconi (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione –...

Although the basic link between the global climate and local weather conditions is obvious, the extent to which anthropogenic pressures on the climate system produce a particular extreme weather event is a complex and contentious matter. This highlights the framing and sense making processes that are involved in communicating extreme weather events...

How do adherents to hegemonic discourses construe and respond to radical arguments by activists? To address the question, we examined how adherents to hegemonic climate change discourses react to a climate activist’s arguments. In interviews conducted with corporate actors of low-carbon transitions, we used a video excerpt to elicit critical reacti...

Although the basic link between the global climate and local weather conditions is obvious, the extent to which anthropogenic pressures on the climate system produce a particular extreme weather event is a complex and contentious matter. This highlights the framing and sense making processes that are involved in communicating extreme weather events...

Bir gerekçe ile bir iddia arasında kurulan çıkarsama ilişkisi tüm argüman teorilerinin ve modellerinin temelini oluşturur. Bununla birlikte farklı analitik öncelikler doğrultusunda detaylandırılmış çeşitli argüman modelleri mevcuttur. Bu makale kavramsal ilişkilere odaklı karşılaştırmalı bir literatür taraması yöntemi ile söylem analizi çalışmaları...

The co-production of technology and society is today a widely accepted notion. On the other hand, there is arguably a puzzle or “paradox” of technology where the means par excellence to higher-level (e.g., socio-environmental) goals, comes into view as an end in itself. We hold that to overcome the paradox, and to better understand co-production of...

In this paper, we analyze the argumentative strategies deployed in the Ecomodernist Manifesto , published in 2015 by a group of leading environmental thinkers. We draw on pragma-dialectics and Perelman’s rhetoric to characterize manifesto as a genre of practical argumentation. Our goal is to explore the relation of manifesto as a discursive genre t...

This article examines how two conflicting views regarding science-society relations—science as the arbiter of truth and as a social endeavor—perpetuate a tension in the way scientific consensus and evidence are called upon in climate change debate. In our analysis of interviews with climate change campaigners, we employ argumentation theory and soc...

The case of Turkey provides some insight into the socio-political and communicative processes taking place at the periphery of the global climate governance efforts. Turkey’s 12-year delayed entry into the regime of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (in 2004) and its status as the last signatory of the Kyoto Protocol (in 200...

A systematic method for studying social representations: Argumentation analysis Özet Bu makalenin amacı sosyal temsillerin argüman analizi yoluyla tespit edilmesine dayanan bir yöntemin ana hatlarını çizmektir. Bunun için önce sosyal temsiller teorisinin bazı dayanak noktaları ve kuramsal önermeleri özetlenmektedir. Bu özet temsillerin basit bir sı...

This presentation focuses on the uses of dissociation in controversial debates. We report findings from an argumentative analysis of (N=22) interviews, in which participants were presented with contentious assertions concerning climate change action. We show how the interview responses were characterized by contrastive and concessive uses of the co...

The goal of this study is to examine the argumentative functions of concessive yes, but… constructions. Based on (N = 22) interview transcripts, we examine the ways environmental activists negotiate their agreements and disagreements over climate change through yes, but… constructions. Starting from conversational analyses of such concessive sequen...

This article examines how climate change is represented by the mainstream press in a developing country context characterized by long-term avoidance of the issue. Study 1 establishes the issue coverage trends in two mainstream Turkish newspapers (1997-2013). Study 2 focuses on the news sections of these papers that were used for reporting about the...

This study aims to explore how the Turkish press represents the discourse of climate change scientists. This is achieved by analyzing climate change-related articles that quote scientists, directly and indirectly, in two Turkish mainstream newspapers (N = 132, 7 years). The Turkish case illustrates how scientific rhetoric is used for presenting cli...