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Prejudicial but not unduly so? Addressing the epistemic and non‐epistemic dangers of rap evidence

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent years have seen mounting concern about the use of rap music as evidence in criminal proceedings, alongside an ever‐increasing number of cases involving ‘rap evidence’. Yet, while rap music is widely recognized to be highly prejudicial as evidence in court, little is known about how ‘prejudicial effect’ is, or should be, conceptualized ...
ABENAA OWUSU‐BEMPAH
wiley   +1 more source

The Rhetorical Dimension of Printed Advertising: a Discourse-Analytical Approach

Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2014
The study of the rhetorical uses of language in advertising can be approached from different disciplines –discourse analysis, media studies, metaphor theory–.
Raquel Segovia
doaj  

Genre literacy transfer from the business to the social entrepreneurial pitch: A proposal for macrostructure and rhetorical strategies

Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación
The generic characteristics of the entrepreneurial pitch (i.e., a short persuasive oral presentation to garner funding from investors) have been the focus of considerable interest in business communication studies for some decades now.
Mercedes Díez Prados
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Rhetorical organization of science popularization news genre: a comparative study between Portuguese and English

Linguagem em (Dis)curso, 2010
The objective of this study is to compare the rhetorical organization of 30 popularization of science news, in Portuguese and English, from the sites Ciência Hoje On-line and BBC Online. In general, we found the indication of general results in the lead, followed by the presentation of the research by detailing of results, description of ...
Motta-Roth, Désirée, Lovato, Cristina dos Santos   +1 more
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Trialing project-based learning in a new EAP ESP course: A collaborative reflective practice of three college English teachers [PDF]

, 2019
Currently in many Chinese universities, the traditional College English course is facing the risk of being ‘marginalized’, replaced or even removed, and many hours previously allocated to the course are now being taken by EAP or ESP.
Wang , Yi, Wang, Jing, Wang, Lisha
core  

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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Rhetorical structural patterns of postgraduate theses abstracts of related disciplines: A genre study

Discourse and Interaction
The study of research abstracts has gained significant scholarly attention as part of genre studies due to the communicative importance of abstracts in constructing academic knowledge. This study contributes to the discussion by examining the structural organization and lexico-grammatical features of ninety (90) postgraduate theses abstracts in the ...
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Exploring the Academic/Creative Writing Binary [PDF]

, 2019
I began to work on this study in my ENG 201: Writing in the Disciplines class during my junior year at Pace University. After being asked to write a paper on what writing looks like in my discipline, I realized that my perceptions of the kinds of writing
O\u27Leary, Jessica
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
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