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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions? [PDF]

ExELL, 2016
Abstract This paper aims to explore whether some rhetorical questions contain certain linguistic elements or forms which would differentiate them from answer-eliciting and action-eliciting questions, and thereby hint at their rhetorical nature even outside the context. Namely, despite the fact that the same questions can be rhetorical in
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Writing In and Around Video Games [PDF]

, 2015
This undergraduate course uses video games as a lens through which to explore the infinitely broader topic of digital rhetoric. Students encounter games in several different ways: as texts to analyze, raw material for video compositions, systems to ...
Sierra, Wendi
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Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams\u27s The Open Space of Democracy [PDF]

, 2015
This essay aims to break through an impasse in scholarship about the uses and limits of invitational rhetoric for social change. After analyzing the arguments about invitational approaches to communication, the essay focuses on a case (concerning freedom
Swiencicki, Jill
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The rhetoric of ritual

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2003
Ritual is an activity formally situated at that point zero where every move and every word become efficacious because they deal with things in their "state of not yet being". The role of religious representations in ritual is to dramatize the countdown to that turning point and sometimes also to express and secure the order of things the priest wishes ...
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What’s the Problem, Mr. President?: Bush’s Shifting Definitions of the 2008 Financial Crisis [PDF]

, 2011
A case study is presented which examines the political rhetoric of U.S. President George W. Bush concerning the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. Topics include Bush\u27s definition of the economic crisis, his reluctance to recognize the existence of
Holtzman, Richard
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The Rhetoric of Technology as a Rhetorical Technology

Poroi, 2013
Defining the “rhetoric of technology” encounters the challenges scholars have identified when defining both “rhetoric” and “technology,” and it raises issues about how to demarcate the rhetoric of technology from media studies and other cognate fields. One distinguishing feature of both rhetoric and technology is the focus on invention. Giving priority
Lynch, John A, Kinsella, William J.
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Abstract Generation based on Rhetorical Structure Extraction [PDF]

arXiv, 1994
We have developed an automatic abstract generation system for Japanese expository writings based on rhetorical structure extraction. The system first extracts the rhetorical structure, the compound of the rhetorical relations between sentences, and then cuts out less important parts in the extracted structure to generate an abstract of the desired ...
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CERD: A Comprehensive Chinese Rhetoric Dataset for Rhetorical Understanding and Generation in Essays [PDF]

arXiv
Existing rhetorical understanding and generation datasets or corpora primarily focus on single coarse-grained categories or fine-grained categories, neglecting the common interrelations between different rhetorical devices by treating them as independent sub-tasks.
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Thai Rhetorical Structure Analysis [PDF]

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, IJCSIS, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 95-105, January 2010, USA, 2010
Rhetorical structure analysis (RSA) explores discourse relations among elementary discourse units (EDUs) in a text. It is very useful in many text processing tasks employing relationships among EDUs such as text understanding, summarization, and question-answering.
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Phenomenology as rhetoric

Nursing Inquiry, 2005
Phenomenology as rhetoric The literature on ‘nursing phenomenology’ is driven by a range of ontological and epistemological considerations, intended to distance it from conventionally scientific approaches. However, this paper examines a series of discrepancies between phenomenological rhetoric and phenomenological practice.
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