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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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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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Quotation in Social Media: How Sharing Other People’s Words Could Increase Misinformation
Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 2022 According to the report “We Are Social” (2021), one of the most important reasons why Internet users take to social media platforms are: “stay up-to-date with news and current events”, “seeing what’s being talked about”, and “sharing and discussing ...
Agnieszka Maria Kula, Monika Grzelka
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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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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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Introduction to Thematic Section on Business Rhetoric
Hermes, 2001 No abstract.
- The Business Rhetoric Research Group
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Introduction to Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Entrepreneurship [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication on the rhetoric of entrepreneurship. The author introduces basic definitions and concepts from the field of entrepreneurship, then identifies three issues linking ...
Spinuzzi, Clay
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