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Harken Not to Wild Beasts: Between Rage and Eloquence in Saruman and Thrasymachus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
One of the giant gaps in Tolkien scholarship has been to miss how deeply Saruman answers the age-old antagonism between rhetoric and philosophy. Like John Milton, Tolkien cannot bring himself to trust rhetoric.
Wise, Dennis Wilson
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Search for identity in post-war Lebanon: Arab vs Phoenician [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Master's Project (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019This study uses textual analysis and network mapping in order to understand the rhetoric surrounding Phoenicianism in modern day Lebanon, using 1,336 data points from a political discussion ...
Ghalioum, Ibrahim A.
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source

A Rhetorical Analysis Approach to Natural Language Processing [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2013
The goal of this research was to find a way to extend the capabilities of computers through the processing of language in a more human way, and present applications which demonstrate the power of this method. This research presents a novel approach, Rhetorical Analysis, to solving problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP).
arxiv  

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetorical relations for information retrieval [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2017
Typically, every part in most coherent text has some plausible reason for its presence, some function that it performs to the overall semantics of the text. Rhetorical relations, e.g. contrast, cause, explanation, describe how the parts of a text are linked to each other.
arxiv  

Rhetorical Role Labeling of Legal Documents using Transformers and Graph Neural Networks [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
A legal document is usually long and dense requiring human effort to parse it. It also contains significant amounts of jargon which make deriving insights from it using existing models a poor approach. This paper presents the approaches undertaken to perform the task of rhetorical role labelling on Indian Court Judgements as part of SemEval Task 6 ...
arxiv  

Redeeming Rhetoric: Augustine\u27s Use of Rhetoric in His Preaching Ministry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The art and practice of rhetoric occupied a fundamental place in the ancient Roman world. It is thus not surprising that Augustine (354-430 AD) was deeply committed to the art of speaking well. He spent his youth mastering the theory of rhetoric, putting
Sypert, John A
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The reconfiguration of Natura and Ars in cartesian rhetoric and the epistemological reflections in the prize questions of the french academies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article discusses the change in the relationship between natura and ars that occurred when Cartesian language theories penetrated conceptions of rhetoric in France during the 17th century.
Urmann, Martin
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Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of ‘doing’ education is often unconsidered or assumed in educational thinking and practice, despite the diversity of understandings. Gert Biesta's perspective that education has a threefold purpose of qualification, socialisation and subjectification is among the most known.
Dalila Pinto Coelho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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