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introduction
In December 1991 Oswald Ducrot gave a series of five lectures on the na-
ture of his theory of argumentation in the language-system to postgraduate
students of Discourse Studies at the ISH, Institute for the Study of Human-
ities in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Since, on the one hand, there is growing interest for Prof. Ducrot’s theo-
ry, while on the other hand very few of his works were translated into Eng-
lish (the modern lingua franca, whether we like it or not), we decided to
republish these lectures in digital form under the title Slovenian lectures -
Introduction into Argumentative Semantics (the first, bilingual edition ap-
peared in 1996, and is no longer available). The lectures were translated by
dr. Sebastian McEvoy.
The Slovenian lectures have been conceived as an introduction to the
theory of argumentation in the language-system, and in Prof. Ducrot’s opin-
ion don’t need a special introduction. Let me therefore just point out that
in the last ten years prof. Ducrot, in collaboration with Marion Carel, has
been developing a new version of the theory of argumentation in the lan-
guage-systeme, a theory of semantic blocks.
A lot of people collaborated at this publication; my special thanks, as
the editor of the volume, go to dr. Sebastian McEvoy, Danielle Charon-
net, Peter Altshul, Simona Suhadolnik, Marjeta Doupona-Horvat, Zoja
Skušek, and especially to Jonatan Vinkler who made this digital publica-
tion possible.
Of course, Prof. Ducrot’s lectures, as well as this publication would
not have been possible without the financial support from the Ministry
introduction
In December 1991 Oswald Ducrot gave a series of five lectures on the na-
ture of his theory of argumentation in the language-system to postgraduate
students of Discourse Studies at the ISH, Institute for the Study of Human-
ities in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Since, on the one hand, there is growing interest for Prof. Ducrot’s theo-
ry, while on the other hand very few of his works were translated into Eng-
lish (the modern lingua franca, whether we like it or not), we decided to
republish these lectures in digital form under the title Slovenian lectures -
Introduction into Argumentative Semantics (the first, bilingual edition ap-
peared in 1996, and is no longer available). The lectures were translated by
dr. Sebastian McEvoy.
The Slovenian lectures have been conceived as an introduction to the
theory of argumentation in the language-system, and in Prof. Ducrot’s opin-
ion don’t need a special introduction. Let me therefore just point out that
in the last ten years prof. Ducrot, in collaboration with Marion Carel, has
been developing a new version of the theory of argumentation in the lan-
guage-systeme, a theory of semantic blocks.
A lot of people collaborated at this publication; my special thanks, as
the editor of the volume, go to dr. Sebastian McEvoy, Danielle Charon-
net, Peter Altshul, Simona Suhadolnik, Marjeta Doupona-Horvat, Zoja
Skušek, and especially to Jonatan Vinkler who made this digital publica-
tion possible.
Of course, Prof. Ducrot’s lectures, as well as this publication would
not have been possible without the financial support from the Ministry
