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  • On the concept “cringe” and its rhetorical applications in political discourse

    On 19.12.2024 (Thursday), at 5 p.m. CET, Prof. Agnieszka Piskorska (Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw) will give an online lecture entitled: On the concept “cringe” and its rhetorical applications  in political discourse Abstract. The talk explores the concept of cringe and the role it plays in political discourse. First, the current use of “cringe”…

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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