CFP: Special Issue of Arkete "The Rhetorical Turn in Argumentation Theory"

Submission deadline: November 30, 2018

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Sixty years after the publication of Chaim Perelman and  Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Traité de l'argumentation and Stephen Toulmin's The Uses of ArgumentArkete welcomes submissions fo a special issue on The Rhetorical Turn in Argumentation Theory.

Perelman,  Olbrechts-Tyteca and Toumin marked a revolution in twentieth-century rhetorical theory. Perelman and Olbrechts-Tytecas propose a New Rhetoric based on a resumption of classical rhetoric and dialectics and opposed to Cartesian rationalism, while Toulmin frames not only a theory of argumentation, but also a revision of logic as a science.

This issue of Arkete aims to explore the New Rhetoric and the contemporary theory of argumentation from different perspectives. Possible topics:

- Argumentative rationality

- Reasonableness and normativity

-  Argumentative Schemes

-  Theories of Argumentation for Education

- Rhetoric and Informal Logic

- Discourse Analysis  

Please note that the above is a *non-exhaustive* list of possible topics. Submissions on any aspect of the rhetoric and theory of argumentation  are welcome.

Submissions

Anyone can submit their paper. Any paper that doesn’t make it into the 2018 issue will automatically be considered for the 2019 issue, and so forth in subsequent years.

Papers, which will be accepted in both English and Italian, must be original and not submitted elsewhere. Each submission should include a separate title page containing the author(s) contact details, a brief abstract and list of five keywords. All papers will be subject to double-blind peer-review. The papers submitted should not exceed 40,000 characters (including notes and spaces).

Manuscripts should be submitted to: [email protected]

For further details on how to prepare the manuscripts, please follow the author guidelines available on the journal’s website: http://mimesisedizioni.it/riviste/arkete.html

The deadline for submissions is November 30,  2018.

Editor

Paolo Piccari (University of Siens)

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