- The ancients and the classics: the sophists, Aristotle, medieval logic, Machiavelli, Bentham, Schopenhauer..
- The new rhetoric (1958): Perelman, Toulmin.
- Recent theories : Ducrot, Hirschman, Walton, Amossy, Angenot, Grize, Maingueneau, Reboul, Plantin, Doury... The ADL/ADD debate (" argumentation dans la langue " or " argumentation dans le discours ").
10:30 - 12:00
Lecture
Argumentation and persuasion : a brief historical introduction
François Héran