Argumentor Conference 2012

The Second International Conference on Argumentation and Rhetoric. Oradea, Romania, 21-22 September 2012

arg plakThe Second International Conference on Argumentation and Rhetoric aims to explore all the possible angles given in an interdisciplinary approach to matters of argumentation and rhetoric. It is needless to say how important these topics have become over the turbulent times of recent changes in economy, politics, geopolitics, education, culture, clash of cultures, communication, media, art, and public space. We take all signs of a crisis as a productive challenge and try to follow the occurring paradigm shifts by carefully analyzing the fields that offer an opportunity to build up a flexible and functional vocabulary and methodology that prove to be as adequate as possible to the dynamic of changes. The conference offers a platform not only for both theoretical and practical approaches, but also to those works that reject the validity of such a distinction. 

Keynote speakers:
Frans VAN EEMEREN, University of Amsterdam
MARGITAY Tihamér, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Mircea DUMITRU, University of Bucharest
Thomas A. SZLEZÁK, University of Tübingen

Organizing Committee:
BAKÓ Rozália Klára, Sapientia – Hungarian University of Transylvania
BALOGH Brigitta, Partium Christian University, Romania
BIRÓ-KASZÁS Éva, University of Debrecen, Hungary
BERNÁTH Krisztina, Partium Christian University, Romania
GYÖRGYJAKAB Iza, Partium Christian University, Romania
HORVÁTH Gizella, Partium Christian University, Romania

Program: overall-program-argumentor.pdf