What do we know about the world
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Human Services
| Author: | Gabrijela Kišiček | ISBN: | 9789612701734 |
| Publisher: | Pedagoški inštitut | Publication: | September 17, 2013 |
| Imprint: | 884 | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gabrijela Kišiček |
| ISBN: | 9789612701734 |
| Publisher: | Pedagoški inštitut |
| Publication: | September 17, 2013 |
| Imprint: | 884 |
| Language: | English |
What Do We Know about the World? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives is a selection of peer reviewed papers presented at the “First International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia: the Days of Ivo Škarić”. The Conference was organized with the intent of paying respect to the Croatian rhetorician and professor emeritus Ivo Škarić who was the first to introduce rhetoric at the Department of Phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
The papers presented at the conference are distributed into five chapters: *Theoretical Perspectives* discussing argumentation theory, relations between philosophy and rhetoric, and visual argumentation; *Political Discourse* presents papers interested in rhetorical strategies and argumentation analysis in various types of pubic discourse, i.e. parliamentary debates, persuasion in political speeches etc; The Media chapter presents papers containing rhetorical analyses of the media discourse, especially those interested in figures of speech and the New Media; the Legal Discourse discusses argumentation and rhetorical strategies in legal discourse; while *Educationpresents* a chapter involved in the importance of the rhetoric in education system, i.e. implementation of debate in education, writings of the argumentative genre, etc.
What Do We Know about the World? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives is a selection of peer reviewed papers presented at the “First International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia: the Days of Ivo Škarić”. The Conference was organized with the intent of paying respect to the Croatian rhetorician and professor emeritus Ivo Škarić who was the first to introduce rhetoric at the Department of Phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
The papers presented at the conference are distributed into five chapters: *Theoretical Perspectives* discussing argumentation theory, relations between philosophy and rhetoric, and visual argumentation; *Political Discourse* presents papers interested in rhetorical strategies and argumentation analysis in various types of pubic discourse, i.e. parliamentary debates, persuasion in political speeches etc; The Media chapter presents papers containing rhetorical analyses of the media discourse, especially those interested in figures of speech and the New Media; the Legal Discourse discusses argumentation and rhetorical strategies in legal discourse; while *Educationpresents* a chapter involved in the importance of the rhetoric in education system, i.e. implementation of debate in education, writings of the argumentative genre, etc.
