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XACT is a research group based at the Department of Linguistics and Communication

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 10 members based at the in Lodz.

(Team leader)

Ahmed Saladin, MA

Cong Chi Huynh, MA

Agnieszka Sroka, BA

Kacper Rybiński, BA

Recent Publications

Here is a selection of our recently published work:

2025

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, 1433–1443.

2024

Majdzińska-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, 215–228.

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, 85–108.

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.

 

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