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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 The art of rhetoric may be defined as changing other people's minds (opinions, beliefs) without providing them new information. One technique heavily used by rhetoric employs analogies. Using analogies, one may draw the listener's attention to similarities between cases and to re-organize existing information in a way that highlights certain ...
Andrew Postlewaite +5 more
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Elite rhetoric can undermine democratic norms
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance Democracies depend on candidates and parties affirming the legitimacy of election results even when they lose. These statements help maintain confidence that elections are free and fair and thereby facilitate the peaceful transfer of power ...
Katherine Clayton +5 more
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The Language of Pandemic Leaderships: Mapping Political Rhetoric During the COVID‐19 Outbreak
Political Psychology, 2021 This article maps political rhetoric by national leaders during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We identify and characterize global variations in major rhetorical storylines invoked in publicly available speeches (N = 1201) across a sample of 26 countries ...
C. Montiel +2 more
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medRxiv, 2021 Vaccine hesitancy (delay in obtaining a vaccine, despite availability) represents a significant hurdle to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is in part related to the prevalence of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation, which are ...
Brian Hughes +6 more
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Crossings, 2022 Scholars have shown how the politics of English(es) can perpetuate structures of unequal power, marginalization, and injustice (as well as being used to counter them).
Shyam Sharma
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John Locke on Inference and Fallacy, A Re-Appraisal
Informal Logic, 2014 John Locke, long associated with the “standard” approach to fallacies and the “logical” approach to valid inference, had both logical and dialectical reasons for favoring certain proofs and denigrating others. While the logical approach to argumentation
Mark Garrett Longaker
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The Alchemy of Sound: The Power of Spoken Language in a Very Visual World [PDF]
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2016 In our highly visual world, spoken language is often neglected as a tool that can contribute much to students’ linguistic competence. By privileging textual literacy over oral literacy, schools may be neglecting a dimension of language that students ...
Lucy Bednar
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Introduction to Thematic Section on Business Rhetoric
Hermes, 2001 No abstract.
- The Business Rhetoric Research Group
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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 The article considers the contextual factors that lead to descriptions of workplace relationships as appropriate and inappropriate. It reviews viewpoint, context of activity, and the tension between social and personal relationships in environments based
Steve Duck
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Assessing Deliberative Pedagogy: Using a Learning Outcomes Rubric to Assess Tradeoffs and Tensions
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2016 Teaching deliberative decision-making is a method of encouraging students to think critically, engage public problems, and engage in both public speaking and public listening.
Sara A. Mehltretter Drury
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