We are very happy to announce that Dr. Jennifer Schumann has just published her first monograph, titled The Pragmatics of Straw Man Fallacies: An Experimental Approach, as volume 46 of Springer's Argumentation Library series. The book is published under an Open Access agreement, meaning that it can be downloaded for free from the publisher's website.

This book provides the first experimental pragmatic investigation of the straw man, uncovering a variety of factors that increase or decrease the acceptability of this fallacy. The book starts with an overview of the primarily theoretical frameworks on argumentation/fallacies and the straw man. The aim is to provide a synthetic review of the research conducted in argumentation and the study of fallacies with a strong focus on modern approaches and the role of language within these approaches. It is followed by an overview of the empirical methods in argumentation, which leads the reader to the core part of the book, i.e., the experimental pragmatic approach to the straw man fallacy. This part of the book presents several original studies assessing the role of different linguistic factors in the perception of straw men.

Congratulations, Jennifer!