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XACT Research
XACT is a research group based at the Department of Linguistics and Communication
About XACT
The XACT Research Group was formed in 2025 to coordinate and enhance the research work of the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the 91桃色. The group works primarily on projects in Argumentation theory with a focus on developing tools which can be employed in the teaching of textual analysis and critical thinking. Members of the group also pursue research studies in areas such as Rhetoric, AI communication, Multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis, and the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics.
Explainable Argumentation Theory (XAT) was developed by Martin Hinton and Jean Wagemans. The aim is to provide systematic procedures for the analysis and evaluation of argumentative texts which are fully explicit and thus both robust and repeatable. The two principal tools which have been developed are Wagemans's Periodic Table of Arguments () and Hinton's Comprehensive Assessment Procedure for Natural Argumentation (CAPNA).
Projects
The XACT team are currently running three projects with funding of almost 3 million zl.
AIDA: Attitude and Identity in Argumentation - NCN Opus grant. 2023-2027. 708,848 PLN
The variation of linguistic and rhetorical features across different functions of argument. NCN Preludiam grant. 2024-2027. 142,640 PLN
PRIMA: Procedures for Interpreting Multimodal Argumentation - NCN Sonata Bis grant. 2025-2029. 1,999,488 PLN
Events
XACT Team
The XACT team currently has 11 members based at the in Lodz.
(Team leader)
(PhD candidate)
(PhD candidate)
Ahmed Saladin, MA (PhD candidate)
Cong Chi Huynh, MA
Agnieszka Sroka, BA
Kacper Rybi艅ski, BA
Our Partners
The XACT research group collaborates with scholars and labs from across Europe. Our partner groups are:
The Netherlands
(Language and Cognition in Argumentation) research group - University of Amsterdam
project - University of Groningen
Poland
The - Technical University of Warsaw
- Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
The Centre of Applied Rhetoric - University of Warsaw
We also cooperate closely with:
- University of Zagreb
- University of Groningen
- UMCS, Lublin
- UKEN, Krakow
Karen Velyan - Brusov State University, Yerevan
Recent Publications
Here is a selection of our recently published work:
2026
Welle, M. T., & Shtok, N. (2026). Argumentation and Language in Identity Construction: A Discourse-Historical Analysis of Polarisation in the 2024 Trump-Harris Debate. Argumentation, 1-25.
2025
Kobierski, M. (2025). AI the Teacher? A Study on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Learning. (LingBaW), 11(11), 89-102.
Hinton, M. (2025). Towards an Ethos of Machines: LLMs as Rhetors. Res Rhetorica, 12 (4), 220-240.
Hinton, M. & Wagemans J.H.M. (2025). Two-tier Fallacy Theory. Informal Logic, 45 (4), 475-503.
Hinton, M. (2025). Evaluating Argumentative Discourse Processes. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 70 (83), 259-281.
Kulik, M., Hinton, M., & Budzynska K. (2025). Charity as Just Deserts. Topoi, 44, 1433鈥�1443.
2024
Majdzi艅ska-Koczorowicz, A., & Ostanina-Olszewska, J. (2024). Image-Based Internet Memes as Conceptual Blends. Forum Philosophicum, 29, (2), 335-350.
Stalmaszczyk, P. (ed.) (2024). . Brill.
Shtok, N. (2024). A critical study of group-defining categories in the discursive construal of national identity. LingBaW. Linguistics Beyond and Within, 10, 215鈥�228.
Kisicek, G. & Hinton, M. (2024). As Syllable from Sound. Informal Logic, 44(2), 135-165.
Hinton, M., Kobierski, M., Olkowska, W., & Sroka, A. (2024). Functions of Argument: Changing minds about what? In Proceedings of OSSA 13. University of Windsor.
Hinton, M. (2024). Argumentation and Identity: a Normative Evaluation of the Arguments of Delegates to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. Argumentation, vol. 38, 1, 85鈥�108.
Hinton, M. & Kobierski, M. (2024). The Debating Tradition in Great Britain and the United States of America. In Budzynska-Daca, A. & Modrzejewska, E. (eds.) Debata. Retoryka dla Demokracji. pp. 330-344. Warsaw: PWN.