XACT Research

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

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. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v45i4.9435 

Hinton, M. (2025). Evaluating Argumentative Discourse Processes. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 70 (83), 259-281. https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2025-0014

Kulik, M., Hinton, M., & Budzynska K. (2025). Charity as Just Deserts. Topoi, 44, 1433–1443. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10295-0

2024

Majdzińska-Koczorowicz, A., & Ostanina-Olszewska, J. (2024). Image-Based Internet Memes as Conceptual Blends. Forum Philosophicum, 29, (2), 335-350. https://doi.org/10.35765/forphil.2024.2902.06

Stalmaszczyk, P. (ed.) (2024). Conceptual Engineering. Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues. Brill. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783969753026

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. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/8165

Kisicek, G. & Hinton, M. (2024). As Syllable from Sound. Informal Logic, 44(2), 135-165. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v44i2.8203

Hinton, M., Kobierski, M., Olkowska, W., & Sroka, A. (2024). Functions of Argument: Changing minds about what? In Proceedings of OSSA 13. University of Windsor. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14776/18897

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-022-09589-z

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.