Hexis. Revista Iberoamericana de Retórica invites submissions for publication in its monographic dossier in January 2027. The title of the dossier will be “Constructivist Rhetoric. The Rhetorical Construction of Discourse Meaning” and will be coordinated by David Pujante (University of Valladolid, Spain) and Esperanza Morales-López (University of A Coruña, Spain). The deadline for submitting proposals for this dossier is 31 October 2026.

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1 Important dates

The deadline for submitting proposals for the monographic dossier “Constructivist Rhetoric. The Rhetorical Construction of Discourse Meaning” is 31 October 2026. Authors will be notified of the decision regarding the acceptance of their paper once the Peer Review Process has been completed. If a paper requires revisions, these must be submitted by the deadlines specified in the review process.

2 Procedure for submitting papers

Articles should be submitted to the Monographic Dossier section and follow the Author Guidelines via the journal's platform. To do so, you must log in to the platform at Login or Register if you have not previously registered.

3 Possible thematic areas

• Communication issues and social persuasion in public health discourse.
• Scientific thought as a historical construct.
• The rhetorical construction of history.
• Social influence groups: examples and models that shape social behaviour.
• Ideology in discourse: racist and xenophobic metaphors.
• The construction of gender identities. A political and social debate.
• Nationalist discourse and its rhetorical foundations.
• Discourses that shape eco-social alternatives.
• What and how to know: the construction of philosophical discourses.
• The tropes of warmongering.

4 Summary of the proposal

Constructivist rhetoric focuses on the strategies of meaning-making in persuasive social discourse, studying the rhetorical procedures of speech that construct, interpret and shape social reality. It draws on the Vican tradition (Giambattista Vico, 1668–1744), which regards tropology as the means of grasping reality through language (human beings only understand what they create). This is similar to the view put forward by Hayden White (1928–2018) when he states that tropes produce the kinds of images and connections between them that are capable of functioning as signs of a reality that can only be imagined, as it cannot be perceived directly.

Constructivist rhetoric is rooted in contemporary constructivism (from Foucault to White, Maturana and Varela) and is linked to new rhetoric and critical discourse analysis. According to this tradition, through language we construct our world and our way of being in that world: a reality that is both changing (a construction for a particular time and space) and changeable (through the interaction of speakers: everyday languaging).