This volume edited by Eddo Rigotti with the collaboration of Sara Cigada assembles papers presented at an international conference held at the University of Lugano in April 1997. From a variety of perspectives the papers address the question of meaning in argumentation, a phenomenon that has come to be regarded as belonging to the domain of rhetoric. Special attention is given to the connections between rhetoric, argumentation and reason as brought to light by the analysis of written and oral texts.

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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-Französisch). Am Beispiel von Vorwörtern zu Literaturgeschichten. - Marie-Hélène Boblet-Viart, Questions de paroles: le roman dialogué en France depuis 1960. - Sara Cigada, L'oratio grammatica et son >extension< rhétorique: Priscien et Roger Bacon. - Svetla Cmejrková, 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 procédés de crédibilisation des témoignages comme indices des normes argumentatives des locuteurs. - Barbara E. Emmel, The Enthymeme and Argument. - Robert Maier, Types of Debate. - Christian Plantin, La construction rhétorique des émotions. - 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.