What Do We Know About The World?: Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives: Volume 1 (Windsor Studies in Argumentation) - Softcover

Kisicek, Gabrijela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0920233708 ISBN 13: 9780920233702

Publisher: University of Windsor, 2013

Synopsis

This book consists of selected papers delivered at “First International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia: the Days of Ivo Skaric” in May, 2012, and subsequently revised for publication. Through a variety of different routes, the papers explore the role of rhetoric and argumentation in various types of public discourse and present interdisciplinary work connecting linguists, phoneticians, philosophers, law experts and communication scientists in the common ground of rhetoric and argumentation.

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About the Author

Gabrijela KISICEK, PhD works as a senior research assistant at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She teaches Argumentation and History of Rhetoric for graduate students of Rhetoric at the Department of Phonetics and Communication skills for the students of Landscape design at the Faculty of Agriculture. Her research interests are focused on rhetorical analysis of political discourse and Critical Discourse Analysis. She published several papers which discuss argumentation in political speeches and rhetorical strategies in public discourse. She presented her research at several international conferences. Periodically she teaches public speaking and communication skills to interested politicians, teachers, priests, journalists and television presenters.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Windsor
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0920233708
• ISBN 13: 9780920233702
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Zagar Igor Z.