Steve Oswald is Titular Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research interests lie at the interface between discourse, language and cognition and he has worked extensively on the role of influence in communication (e.g., when communication is non-cooperative, deceptive, persuasive or argumentative). His current research projects and publications are devoted to the role of pragmatic meaning in argumentative processes, which he approaches from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.