Oratory is the oldest and still optimal medium of communication,
more specifically - public communication, which makes it an especially
interesting, even compulsory subject of research. Rhetoric is one of the
oldest theories of speech and besides philosophy the most elaborated
educational system of European cultural history.
We propose several thematic subgroups:
- Historical topics
- pretechnical oratory, ancient basis of oratory, rhetoric and philosophy,
Christian rhetoric, modern history rhetoric, rhetoric of Renaissance, modern
rhetoric...
- Rhetorical Theory
- oratorical forms and contents, aims and means, rationality and emotion,
topic, argumentation, composition and figuration; electronic media
speech...; public speech from the aspects of bordering disciplines, like:
speech science, phonetics, linguistics, semiology, communicology,
hermeneutics, literary theory, stylistics, psychology, sociology,
aesthetics, ethics, logic, law...
- Modern public speech research
- methods of rhetorical analysis, public speaking
(political, juridical, occasional, business, ecclesiastical, educational,
advertising...)
- Public speaking education
- old and new speech pedagogy, spech education methods, speech prepar
training, the ideal and the current state of speech culture, rhetoric in the
Croatian school system...
Includes (but is not limited to) topics like: semantics of verbal and
nonverbal signs, sociophonetics and language policy (orthoepy), psychophonetics,
physiologycal and acoustic aspects of speaking and hearing, the use of
computer in speech research, language acquisition and learning, speech and
language impairments and rehabilitation of hearing and speaking, literary
language...
