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What Do We Know about the World?
Davor NIKOLIĆ was born in 1981 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2006 he
majored both in Croatian language and literature and in phonetics at the Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, after which he enrolled in
the postgraduate course in Croatian culture. Since 2007 he has worked as a junior re-
searcher and teaching assistant at the Chair of Croatian Oral Literature, University
of Zagreb. The additional areas of his professional and scientific interest are rhetoric,
stylistics and argumentation theory. Since 2003 he has appeared 18 times as teaching
mentor at the School of Rhetoric “Ivo Škarić”. This paper is the fourth in collabora-
tion with Ana Grgić on the subject of antonomasia.
Chiara POLLAROLI is a PhD candidate for a doctorate in Communication scienc-
es at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Her research deals with tropes and argu-
mentative topoi in advertising. She is interested in rhetoric and argumentation, ad-
vertising, semiotics and multimodality. She works as a Teaching Assistant at the In-
stitute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics.
Anita RUNJIĆ-STOILOVA is currently working as an assistant professor at the
Department of Croatian Language and Literature at the University of Split. She is
lecturing on phonetics, phonology, rhetoric and stylistics, and doing research espe-
cially on media discourse. She is also working as a speech coach on Croatian Na-
tional Television and as a language advisor at the Croatian National Theatre in Split.
Joanna SZCZEPAŃSKA-WŁOCH – an academic teacher and a doctoral candi-
date in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Her PhD dis-
sertation touches upon the political discourse from the perspective of game-theo-
retical semantics by Jaakko Hintikka (“Contemporary political interview in Poland
and Great Britain―a contrastive analysis of the genre with respect to the theory of
discourse games”). In her thesis she concentrates on the political discourse in Poland
and Great Britain, specifically linguistic strategies politicians deploy to attain their
goals. Her research interests are focused on the theory of discourse, particularly me-
dia and political discourse, rhetorics, eristics and pragmalinguistics.
Diana TOMIĆ is a teaching and research assistant at the Department of Phonet-
ics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Among oth-
er more specialized phonetics courses she is teaching introductory public speaking
courses for teachers and also for athletes at the Faculty of Kinesiology. Her research
interests include speech acquisition and child phonology, some aspects of public
speaking (teaching public speaking, public speaking anxiety, development of listen-
ing skills) and political discourse.
Alma VANČURA, PhD is a Senior Teaching Assistant at the Department of Eng-
lish, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of J. J. Strossmayer in
Davor NIKOLIĆ was born in 1981 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2006 he
majored both in Croatian language and literature and in phonetics at the Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, after which he enrolled in
the postgraduate course in Croatian culture. Since 2007 he has worked as a junior re-
searcher and teaching assistant at the Chair of Croatian Oral Literature, University
of Zagreb. The additional areas of his professional and scientific interest are rhetoric,
stylistics and argumentation theory. Since 2003 he has appeared 18 times as teaching
mentor at the School of Rhetoric “Ivo Škarić”. This paper is the fourth in collabora-
tion with Ana Grgić on the subject of antonomasia.
Chiara POLLAROLI is a PhD candidate for a doctorate in Communication scienc-
es at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Her research deals with tropes and argu-
mentative topoi in advertising. She is interested in rhetoric and argumentation, ad-
vertising, semiotics and multimodality. She works as a Teaching Assistant at the In-
stitute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics.
Anita RUNJIĆ-STOILOVA is currently working as an assistant professor at the
Department of Croatian Language and Literature at the University of Split. She is
lecturing on phonetics, phonology, rhetoric and stylistics, and doing research espe-
cially on media discourse. She is also working as a speech coach on Croatian Na-
tional Television and as a language advisor at the Croatian National Theatre in Split.
Joanna SZCZEPAŃSKA-WŁOCH – an academic teacher and a doctoral candi-
date in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Her PhD dis-
sertation touches upon the political discourse from the perspective of game-theo-
retical semantics by Jaakko Hintikka (“Contemporary political interview in Poland
and Great Britain―a contrastive analysis of the genre with respect to the theory of
discourse games”). In her thesis she concentrates on the political discourse in Poland
and Great Britain, specifically linguistic strategies politicians deploy to attain their
goals. Her research interests are focused on the theory of discourse, particularly me-
dia and political discourse, rhetorics, eristics and pragmalinguistics.
Diana TOMIĆ is a teaching and research assistant at the Department of Phonet-
ics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Among oth-
er more specialized phonetics courses she is teaching introductory public speaking
courses for teachers and also for athletes at the Faculty of Kinesiology. Her research
interests include speech acquisition and child phonology, some aspects of public
speaking (teaching public speaking, public speaking anxiety, development of listen-
ing skills) and political discourse.
Alma VANČURA, PhD is a Senior Teaching Assistant at the Department of Eng-
lish, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of J. J. Strossmayer in
