Contact Information
702 S Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801
Research Interests
Argumentation, conflict management, conversational interaction
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, Communication
Recent Publications
Jacobs, S., Jackson, S., & Zhang, X. (2022). What Was the President’s Standpoint and When Did He Take It? A Normative Pragmatic Study of Standpoint Emergence in a Presidential Press Conference. Languages, 7(2), Article 153. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020153
Jacobs, S. (2016). Employing and exploiting the presumptions of communication in argumentation: An application of normative pragmatics. Informal Logic, 36(2), 159-191. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v36i2.4661
van Eemeren, F. H., Jackson, S., & Jacobs, S. (2015). Argumentation. In Argumentation Library (pp. 3-25). (Argumentation Library; Vol. 27). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20955-5_1
Van Eemeren, F. H., Jackson, S., & Jacobs, S. (2015). Argumentation. In Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse: Fifty Contributions to the Development of Pragma-Dialectics (pp. 3-25). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20955-5_1
Jacobs, S., & Jackson, S. (2014). Derailments of argumentation: It takes two to tango. In Considering Pragma-Dialectics: A Festschrift for Frans H. Van Eemeren on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday (pp. 121-133). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410614155