About

The research group „Ret-Net: Languages and Rhetorical Cultures” brings together scholars interested in the following research areas:

• general rhetoric and intercultural rhetoric
• language awareness, language ideologies and representations of persuasion
• argumentation and critical thinking
• linguistic and rhetorical mechanisms of manipulation, polarization, fake news in different languages
• theory and practice of teaching rhetoric in Modern Languages curricula
• theory and practice of teaching foreign languages through rhetoric
• the rhetoric of translation
• rhetoric and culture in the digital world