Over 400 experts were involved in the realization this unique encyclopedic project. For the first time ever in the 2000 year history of rhetoric the classical and modern terms of this field of study have been made available in a dictionary for scientific disciplines and practice; the result is a compendium of our entire current knowledge about rhetoric.

Mehr als 400 Fachwissenschaftler wurden gewonnen, um dieses einzigartige enzyklopAdische Vorhaben zu verwirklichen. Erstmals in der mehr als zweitausendjAhrigen Geschichte der Rhetorik werden die klassischen und modernen Begriffe dieser Disziplin in einem WArterbuch fA1/4r Fachwissenschaft und Praxis erschlossen: ein Kompendium unseres gesamten aktuellen Wissens A1/4ber die Rhetorik. [Abschluss mit Bd. 10: ErgAnzungen Aa 'Z und Bd. 11: Regg. (2011)]

This volume (a collection of excerpts from the AHistorical Dictionary of RhetoricA) provides the reader with essential knowledge about the concept, methodologies, and history of European rhetoric, the development of the subject up to the present day, and the existence of analogous theories in non-European cultures. The scope of the volume and its concentration on the fundamental essentials of rhetoric make it unique among the specialist publications on the subject, which is presented here on an interdisciplinary basis reflecting the latest developments in research. As such, it represents an invaluable work of reference for teaching at schools and universities, for research, and for practical concerns. The volume is divided up into sections on Rhetoric, Applied Rhetoric, Non-European Rhetoric, Iconography of Rhetoric, Rhetorical Anthropology, Rhetorical Law Theory, and Rhetoricity.

The volume brings together contributions by internationally renowned experts on the question of topos, a legacy of classical rhetoric used and studied in a broad variety of areas. As such the collection is a cross-section of ongoing research on this subject, some of it historical (antiquity, Middle Ages, modern age), some of it systems oriented (law, communication theory).

The articles in this compendium take an interdisciplinary and international look at the broad academic concept and educational tradition of rhetoric, both as it was developed and transmitted historically and as it has been transformed in contemporary discourse in collaboration with other disciplines of the humanities and social sciences.

Rhetoric as a persuasive technique, school subject and social practice has determined our literary and social linguistic life since the 5th century BC. Its history is the history of the production of speech under changing social conditions. Rhetoric has managed to re-establish itself as an academic subject at German universities since the 1960s, and today, in our advanced media society, it plays an outstanding role in advertising, sales and the social technology of management. - The Rhetoric Yearbook summarises rhetoric research in Germany and presents new publications in an extended review section. A current bibliography provides information on all German-language publications related to rhetoric.Contributions are published in English, French and German.