Possible session topics:Ethics and rhetoric of discussion and argumentation Techniques of (per)suasion from consensus to coercionAlternative constructions of implication, implicature (Grice), ‘implicitness’ (implied narrator, implied author) in linguistic and literary discoursesCitation as a ‘parasitic’ act or as an act of hospitalityComparative approaches between ‘face-to-face’ encounters in oral discursive situations and narrative or dramatic polyloguesThe status of confessional and testimonial narratives: fiction and/ or truthThe affective role and discursive construction of loci memoriae (Nora’s lieux de mémoire)