Rephrasing speakers’ words is a powerful persuasive instrument in an argumentative discourse. The goal of AMoRe is to provide an argumentative model of rephrase by delivering: an annotation scheme and guidelines allowing to map dialogical arguments with rephrase structures; publicly available corpora of annotated rephrase types and structures; an inventory of propositional, stylistic, illocutionary and dialogical patterns associated with the use of rephrase; a methodological protocol allowing the systematic combination of linguistic and cognitive evidence which grounds our novel pragma-rhetorical account; and a fully-fledged pragma-rhetorical model of rephrase which integrates all aspects investigated in this project.
- The project funded by the OPUS-LAP program of the Polish National Science Center (NCN) and
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - AMoRe is worth €700k of which €165k comes to Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) (€165,000; 753,000 PLN)
- Lead PI (at WUT): Marcin Koszowy, co-investigator at WUT: Katarzyna Budzynska, PhD student at WUT (tba)
- AMoRe consortium: Marcin Koszowy and Katarzyna Budzynska, philosophy of argumentation, rhetoric and corpus linguistics, Warsaw University of Technology (PL; Lead), Barbara Konat, computational linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PL), Steve Oswald and Pascal Gygax, pragmatics and psychology, University of Fribourg (CH)
- AMoRe International Advisory Board: Isabela Fairclough, discourse analysis, University of Central Lancashire (UK); Jean Goodwin, communication, North Carolina State University (US); Benno Stein, artificial intelligence, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (DE); Christopher Tindale, argumentation theory, University of Windsor (CA)
- 01.2022-12.2025 Warsaw University of Technology