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Gabrijela Kišiček
What Do We Know about the World? Rhetorical and Argumen-
tative Perspectives is a book trying to answer the title ques-
tion by contributing to rhetorical and argumentative studies.
It consists of selected and peer reviewed papers presented at the “First
International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia: the Days of Ivo Ška-
rić”. 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 Facul-
ty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
As a phonetician, professor Škarić was interested in all aspects of
speech and therefore revealed natural connections between phonetics
and rhetoric. As a founder of the School of Rhetoric, he trained many of
his students to become teachers of rhetoric and to get involved with rhet-
orical and argumentation analysis. This conference was a sign of grati-
tude from his students.
The conference was held at the island of Brač, professor Škarić’s
birthplace, between April 19th and 22nd 2012, and it gathered 60 rhetori-
cians and argumentation scholars from 10 European countries as well as
North America. The papers presented at the conference are distributed
into five chapters of the book: Theoretical Perspectives discussing argu-
mentation theory, relations between philosophy and rhetoric, and visual
argumentation; Political Discourse presents papers interested in rhetor-
ical strategies and argumentation analysis in various types of pubic dis-
course, i.e. parliamentary debates, persuasion in political speeches etc;
The Media chapter presents papers containing rhetorical analyses of the
Gabrijela Kišiček
What Do We Know about the World? Rhetorical and Argumen-
tative Perspectives is a book trying to answer the title ques-
tion by contributing to rhetorical and argumentative studies.
It consists of selected and peer reviewed papers presented at the “First
International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia: the Days of Ivo Ška-
rić”. 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 Facul-
ty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
As a phonetician, professor Škarić was interested in all aspects of
speech and therefore revealed natural connections between phonetics
and rhetoric. As a founder of the School of Rhetoric, he trained many of
his students to become teachers of rhetoric and to get involved with rhet-
orical and argumentation analysis. This conference was a sign of grati-
tude from his students.
The conference was held at the island of Brač, professor Škarić’s
birthplace, between April 19th and 22nd 2012, and it gathered 60 rhetori-
cians and argumentation scholars from 10 European countries as well as
North America. The papers presented at the conference are distributed
into five chapters of the book: Theoretical Perspectives discussing argu-
mentation theory, relations between philosophy and rhetoric, and visual
argumentation; Political Discourse presents papers interested in rhetor-
ical strategies and argumentation analysis in various types of pubic dis-
course, i.e. parliamentary debates, persuasion in political speeches etc;
The Media chapter presents papers containing rhetorical analyses of the
