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interest include the sociology of politics, the political rhetoric and semiotic. She has
written numerous articles on these subjects. She has also authored a book Perswaz-
ja w języku polityki (2009).
Gabrijela KIŠIČEK, PhD works as a senior research assistant at the Faculty of Hu-
manities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She teaches Argumentation and
History of Rhetoric for graduate students of Rhetoric at the Department of Phonet-
ics and Communication skills for the students of Landscape design at the Faculty of
Agriculture. Her research interests are focused on rhetorical analysis of political dis-
course 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.
Fabrizio MACAGNO (Ph.D. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 2003)
works as a researcher and auxiliary professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
where he teaches. His current research, between the fields of Linguistics and Philos-
ophy of language, is focused on the persuasive use of emotive language and on the
dialectical dimension of discourse implicitness, which he analyzes within the con-
texts of legal and political discourse. He is author of several papers on definition, in-
formal fallacies, argumentation schemes, and dialogue theory. His publications in-
clude the book Argumentation Schemes and several papers published in interna-
tional peer-review journals, such as Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics & Cognition,
Argumentation, Philosophy & Rhetoric and Informal Logic.
Maurizio MANZIN (Philosophy of Law, PhD) is full professor of Legal Philosophy
at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento, Italy. He is at present Chairman of
the Research Centre on Legal Methodology (CERMEG) and scientific director of
the Series Acta Methodologica (Giuffrè: Milan). He has worked in the field of legal
argumentation and rhetoric since 1986, having been responsible for many research
projects financed by Italian Ministry of Education, University of Trento, Autono-
mous Province of Trento and others. He is author or editor of about 80 publications
in Italian, English, French and Spanish.
Sabrina MAZZALI-LURATI is Lecturer of Rhetoric and Composition at the
University of Lugano, Switzerland. She gained her PhD in 2003 on the multimedia
application of literary texts from a semiotic approach. Her research interests are lit-
erature and hypermedia, semiotics, metaphor and multimodality, document design
and composition, rhetoric and written communication. She is author of several pa-
pers on these topics.
interest include the sociology of politics, the political rhetoric and semiotic. She has
written numerous articles on these subjects. She has also authored a book Perswaz-
ja w języku polityki (2009).
Gabrijela KIŠIČEK, PhD works as a senior research assistant at the Faculty of Hu-
manities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She teaches Argumentation and
History of Rhetoric for graduate students of Rhetoric at the Department of Phonet-
ics and Communication skills for the students of Landscape design at the Faculty of
Agriculture. Her research interests are focused on rhetorical analysis of political dis-
course 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.
Fabrizio MACAGNO (Ph.D. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 2003)
works as a researcher and auxiliary professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
where he teaches. His current research, between the fields of Linguistics and Philos-
ophy of language, is focused on the persuasive use of emotive language and on the
dialectical dimension of discourse implicitness, which he analyzes within the con-
texts of legal and political discourse. He is author of several papers on definition, in-
formal fallacies, argumentation schemes, and dialogue theory. His publications in-
clude the book Argumentation Schemes and several papers published in interna-
tional peer-review journals, such as Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics & Cognition,
Argumentation, Philosophy & Rhetoric and Informal Logic.
Maurizio MANZIN (Philosophy of Law, PhD) is full professor of Legal Philosophy
at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento, Italy. He is at present Chairman of
the Research Centre on Legal Methodology (CERMEG) and scientific director of
the Series Acta Methodologica (Giuffrè: Milan). He has worked in the field of legal
argumentation and rhetoric since 1986, having been responsible for many research
projects financed by Italian Ministry of Education, University of Trento, Autono-
mous Province of Trento and others. He is author or editor of about 80 publications
in Italian, English, French and Spanish.
Sabrina MAZZALI-LURATI is Lecturer of Rhetoric and Composition at the
University of Lugano, Switzerland. She gained her PhD in 2003 on the multimedia
application of literary texts from a semiotic approach. Her research interests are lit-
erature and hypermedia, semiotics, metaphor and multimodality, document design
and composition, rhetoric and written communication. She is author of several pa-
pers on these topics.
