Aims and Scope

Argumentation. Interpretation. Rhetoric is an international and interdisciplinary journal founded by the University of Amsterdam and St Petersburg State University to address philosophical and linguistic problems of rhetoric and argumentative discourse. This electronic journal is the first and so far the only one in Russia dealing with problems of argumentation theory, rhetoric and communication processes.

The aims of the journal are the following:

• To contribute to establishing and developing scholarly contacts between academics of various countries doing research in humanities relating to the research area of the journal;
• To stimulate interdisciplinary research in classical and modern rhetoric, argumentation theory, informal logic and speech communication;
• To promote the creation of an international center of interdisciplinary research in speech communication at St Petersburg State University and the University of Amsterdam;
• To constitute a laboratory for the development of ideas to be discussed by the international community of scholars.

The editors invite all interested scholars to contribute to our further publications.