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Rhetorical contestation involving disputed organizational and ontological categories

open access: yes, 2018
In this dissertation, through three articles, I explore rhetorical contestation of disputed organizational and ontological categories. In the first article, I analyze connections between some categories of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) involving conflicting interpretations on the part of ...
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Reading Gestures in Valentin de Boulogne’s Paintings

open access: yesInterfaces, 2018
This article is a close reading of the gestures in selected paintings by Valentin de Boulogne exhibited at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art October 7, 2016 – January 16, 2017. The gestures are impelled by body motions, dramatic actions, as well as
Maurice Géracht
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Rhétorique narrative du machinima : polyphonies et saillances d’une narration sous contrainte

open access: yesCahiers de Narratologie, 2020
Through the analysis of two series of machinimas (Halomon and Garrymon) remediating the animated series Pokémon in other video games, this research aims to study the articulation of the rhetorical and narrative processes of this form of video game remix.
Fanny Barnabé
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'A Good Figure Illuminates the Page'. Rhetorical Figures as Persuasive Devices in 19th-century Grammars

open access: yesPolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne
This paper explores the use of rhetorical figures in six 19th-century English manuals devoted to logic, rhetoric, elocution, style, and composition. These handbooks mainly contain an instructive text-type, aiming to teach students various aspects of ...
Margarita Esther Sánchez Cuervo
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Meaning condensation techniques in Niẓāmī’s Makhzan al-asrār [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی
Condensation is one of the artistic arrangements of literary works. In the traditional rhetoric, condensation has mostly been noted in relation to brevity and omission.
Yousof Asqari Bayqoot, Mahdi Dehrami
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MANIPULATING CATEGORIES IN PUBLIC SPEECHES AND THEIR TRANSLATIONS: COGNITIVE RHETORICAL APPLICATION OF VANTAGE THEORY

open access: yesOdessa Linguistic Journal, 2018
The article applies Vantage Theory, which studies the ways of categorization with respect to human orientation in space-time, to revealing three types of manipulating categories structuring the addressee’s worldview: overcategorization, decategorization and new category construction.
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The construction of the ‘we’-category: Political rhetoric in Soviet Estonia from June 1940 to July 1941

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2007
The article asks, how one of the basic notions of cultural-political identity — we — is constructed in mass media, viz. which kind of semiotic and linguistic facilities are used in constructing a political unity. The approach used in this article is based on Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture and on the analysis of pronouns in political texts, using ...
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Rhetorical uses of public space: the discursive organization of a space in conflict

open access: yesAthenea Digital, 2007
In this paper I explore the discursive use of public space, understood as a rhetorical resource for localized social action. Analysing several extracts of written documents and in-depth interviews, I focus on the rhetorical use of space-formulations and ...
Di Masso Tarditi, Andrés
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The Use of Metadiscourse in Turkish EFL Learners’ L1 and L2 Argumentative Essays

open access: yesИнтеграция образования
Introduction. The use of metadiscourse facilitates writer-reader interaction and text coherence. While the incorporation of these rhetorical features in student argumentative essays has been frequently stu­died, comparative investigations of ...
Ruhan Güçlü, Engin Evrim Önem
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Successful Rhetorics: How Do Linguistic Dimensions Affect User Engagement with Different News Categories on Twitter?

open access: yesProceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
This paper analyzes how different rhetorical attributes in news tweets, specifically analytical, clout, perceptual, and risk language, influence user engagement across publishers with different bias and reliability ratings. Using the LIWC framework to quantify these linguistic dimensions in a 5.5 million tweets dataset covering 1,553 news publishers ...
Alireza Mohammadinodooshan   +1 more
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