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Self-deliberation and the Strategy of the Pseudo-dialogue
The New Rhetoric identifies the self-deliberator as one of three main types of audience. But such a turn toward the self is at odds with studies of contemporary argumentation, particularly social argumentation.
Christopher W. Tindale
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If my cholesterol is…then I foresee…: patient accounts of uncertainty
The author examines the talk of patients with high cholesterol as they discuss their experiences of adding a statin to their treatment regimen. The primary objective was to understand patients’ expectations of statins, and their beliefs and feelings as ...
Darlene K. Drummond
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Apriori Method of Mining Secure Data in Social Media [PDF]
As can be seen all around us, social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr and other became more importance grow rapidly in the last few years.
Zahraa Raji Mohi
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The Toys of Organic Chemistry: Material Manipulatives and Scientific Reasoning
THE TOYS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: MATERIAL MANIPULATIVES AND SCIENTIFIC REASONING Abstract: Chemical visualizations and models are special kinds of media for thinking.
Kate McKinney Maddalena
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Rhetoric, Dialectic and Logic: The Wild-Goose Chase for an Essential Distinction
Taking Blair’s recent contribution to the debate about the triad as its starting point, the article discusses and challenges attempts to reduce the intricate relationship between rhetoric, dialectic and logic to a trichotomy with watertight compartments ...
Charlotte Jørgensen
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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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Abu Ghraib and the Temporal Logic of Interruption
On April 28, 2004, CBS News broadcasted the first photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib Detention Centre. These photos, a censored fraction of more than two hundred photographs and nineteen videos taken at the detention centre, render in colour all
Laura Sparks
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The Rhetoric and Counter-Rhetoric of a "Bionic" Technology [PDF]
Development of the cochlear implant, discussed in this article, depended vitally on deaf people being persuaded to undergo implantation. Media "reconstruction" of the device as the "bionic ear" was typically encouraged by implant pioneers. Unexpectedly, however, a "counter-rhetoric" based on a very different understanding of deafness emerged.
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The medium of video games often fails to depict queerness with positive representations. To combat the harmful stereotypes or optional queerness in the medium, I advocate for an application of queer archival methodologies to define and locate queerness ...
Renee Ann Drouin
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The Alchemy of Sound: The Power of Spoken Language in a Very Visual World [PDF]
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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