What Do We Know About the World? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives

Gabrijela KIŠIČEK, 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.

Igor Ž. ŽAGAR studied philosophy, sociology, and linguistics in Ljubljana, Paris, and Antwerp. He received his doctoral degree in Sociology of Culture from the University of Ljubljana. He is Professor of Rhetoric and Argumentation (University of Primorska), and a Senior Research Fellow (Head of the Centre for Discourse Studies) at the Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has lectured in Belgium, United States, Italy, China, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Romania, Poland, and France. Žagar’s interests lie in pragmatics (speech act theory, (critical) discourse analysis), philosophy of language, argumentation, and rhetoric. He is (co)author and (co)editor of twelve books, and more than a hundred articles.