Notes on Contributors

Ruth Amossy is professor of French literature and theory of literature at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of several books on stereotypes and cliches: Les discours du cliché (1982), in collaboration with Elisheva Rosen; Les idées reçues: Sémiologie du stéréotype (1991); and Stéréotypes et clichés (1997), with Anne Herschberg Pierrot. She has recently published a book on argumentation, L'Argumentation dans le discours (2000), and edited Images de soi dans le discours: La construction de l'ethos (1999); Pragmatique et analyse des textes (2002); and Après Perelman: Quelles politiques pour les nouvelles rhétoriques? with Roselyn Koren (2002).

Marc Angenot is professor of French at McGill University and a member of the Royal Academy of Canada. He is the author of about twenty books in the field of literary criticism, discourse analysis, and the history of ideas. Among them are La parole pamphlétaire (1982), 1889: Un état du discours social (1989), L'utopie collectivisite (1996), Les idéologies du ressentiment (1996), La propagande socialiste (1997), La Critique au service de la Révolution (2000). His book Critique of Semiotic Reason (1985) was translated into English in 1994.

Jean-Louis Dufays is professor of literature and French didactics at the Catholic University of Louvain and manages the Centre of Research in Didactics of Romance Language and Literature (CEDILL). His publications include Le récit de vie (1989), La chanson (1994), Stéréotype et lecture (1994), Pour une lecture littéraire, 2 vols. (1996), Le comique (1999), Le rire de Pierre Desproges (2000), and Didactique des langues romanes (2001).

Ekkehard Eggs is professor of linguistics at the University of Hanover, Germany, and is a member of the review committee of the Dictionary of the History of Rhetoric (Historisches W�rterbuch der Rhetorik), wherein he published basic research articles on "Argumentation," "Grammar," "Connotation," "Metaphor," and "Metonymy" as well as "Logic." His Habilitation dealt with the Rhetoric of Aristotle. He published a study on the Grammar of Argumentative Discourse in French. His recent publications include a manual, French for Economics, and a book on Topoi: Discourse and Arguments as well as a series of articles on complex sentences and the structures of argumentation in scientific texts. He is currently conducting research on the history of rhetoric and the theory of argumentation.

Anne Herschberg Pierrot is professor of French literature at the University of Paris-8. Her publications include Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues de Flaubert (1988), Stylistique de la prose (1993), a genetic and critical edition of Flaubert's Dictionnaire des idées reçues (1997), and, with Ruth Amossy, Stéréotypes et clichés (1997). Related to her present essay is "Les manuscrits de Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes: Style et genèse," forthcoming in Genesis 19 (2002).

Georges-Elia Sarfati, associate professor of French at Tel Aviv University, has specialized in lexicography and pragmatics. His works include Dire, agir, définir: Dictionnaires et langage ordinaire (1995), Eléments d'analyse du discours (1997), Discours ordinaires et identités juives (1999), Le Vatican et la shoah (2002), Précis de pragmatique (2002), and L'antisionisme (2002) as well as "Aspects épistémologiques et conceptuels d'une théorie linguistique de la doxa" in Après Perelman (2002).