Contents: 1. Rhetoric in Argumentation: Frantisek Danes, Extra-logical Factors in Argumentation. - Vincenzo Lo Cascio, Narration in Argumentation: a Rhetorical Strategy. - Eddo Rigotti, The Enthymeme as a Rhetorical Device and as a Textual Process. - Edda Weigand, Rhetoric and Argumentation in a Dialogic Perspective. - 2. Rhetoric and Text Analysis: Kirsten Adamzik/Christa Pieth, Rhetorik der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation im Sprachvergleich (Deutsch-Franzoesisch). Am Beispiel von Vorwoertern zu Literaturgeschichten. - Marie-Helene Boblet-Viart, Questions de paroles: le roman dialogue en France depuis 1960. - Sara Cigada, L'oratio grammatica et son >extension< rhetorique: Priscien et Roger Bacon. - Svetla Cmejrkova, Rhetoric, Argumentation and Advertisement. - Maria Cristina Gatti, Negative Rhetorical Figures. - Daniela Pirazzini, Rhetorische Fragen in gegenargumentativen Kontexten. - Galia Yanoshevsky, An Anti-Cartesian Dream? A Critique of Rationalism in Surrealism's First Manifesto. - 3. Rhetoric, Argumentation and Reason: Massimo Bonfantini/Susan Petrilli/Augusto Ponzio, Dialogue on Lying and Dialogue on Truth: Rhetoric versus Argumentation. - Marianne Doury, Les procedes de credibilisation des temoignages comme indices des normes argumentatives des locuteurs. - Barbara E. Emmel, The Enthymeme and Argument. - Robert Maier, Types of Debate. - Christian Plantin, La construction rhetorique des emotions. - 4. Rhetoric in Oral Interactions: Laurie Anderson, The Co-construction of Competence in Oral Examinations. - Carla Bazzanella, Metaphor in Classroom Interaction. - Liliana Ionescu-Ruxandoiu, Argumentation as a Strategy in Face-to-face Interaction. - Werner Kallmeyer, Others' Inserts in an Ongoing Turn. Some Sequential, Grammatical and Rhetoric Observations.
