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. (2024). Arguments and Speech Acts Reconsidered. Topoi, 43(4), 1269-1286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10086-z
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