The absence of a comprehensive historical dictionary has been the most serious lacuna in international rhetorical studies. This work sets out to remedy the situation by outlining the theories and conceptual instrumentarium of rhetoric from Classical Antiquity to the present, in articles ranging from the descriptive and the definitory to research reports and overviews.

The absence of a comprehensive historical dictionary has been the most serious lacuna in international rhetorical studies. This work sets out to remedy the situation by outlining the theories and conceptual instrumentarium of rhetoric from Classical Antiquity to the present, in articles ranging from the descriptive and the definitory to research reports and overviews.

The absence of a comprehensive historical dictionary has been the most serious lacuna in international rhetorical studies. This work sets out to remedy the situation by outlining the theories and conceptual instrumentarium of rhetoric from Classical Antiquity to the present, in articles ranging from the descriptive and the definitory to research reports and overviews.