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The challenge of moving beyond rhetoric

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 2010
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the understanding and practice of diversity management in a Middle Eastern context, based on interviews with two sets of stakeholders (Lebanese women managers and HR managers) directly concerned and involved with diversity management efforts in the Lebanese context.Design/methodology/approachThe paper ...
Jamali, Dima, Abdallah, Hanin, Hmaidan, Soha   +2 more
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SBIRT Implementation: Moving beyond the Interdisciplinary Rhetoric

Substance Abuse, 2010
New hospital accreditation measures are currently under consideration by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) that would require screening, brief intervention, ...
Lauren M, Broyles, Adam J, Gordon
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Rhetorics of Engagement and Activism:Questions Moving Forward

Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2011
Activism and Rhetoric: Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement. Edited by Seth Kahn and Jonghwa Lee. New York: Routledge, 2011; pp. vi + 205. $100.00 cloth; $39.95 paper. Democracies to Come. By Rachel Riedner and Kevin Mahoney. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008; pp. vii + 121. $60.00 cloth. The Public Work of Rhetoric.
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Moving Computing and Education beyond Rhetoric

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 1988
Computers enable us to offer students distinctively alternative paths to certain goals, for instance, graphic representation in the place of verbal statement. Where such alternatives can be implemented, it becomes possible to test their comparative effectiveness with some rigor.
Robert P. Taylor, Nancy Cunniff
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“Moves” Toward Rhetorical Civility

Pedagogy, 2014
I theorize four civility moves—opening up, searching for sameness, examining differences, and listening deeply. Although I ultimately offer these as rhetorical strategies to be taught and practiced explicitly, I use them here as a framework for interpreting student writing that emerged from an assignment to produce a collaborative anthology of ...
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Beyond Traditional Conceptualizations of Rhetoric: Invitational Rhetoric and a Move Toward Civility

Western Journal of Communication, 2008
Although not the first, the theory of invitational rhetoric offers a significant challenge to a strict definition of rhetoric as persuasion. Invitational rhetoric's link to feminism, paring of persuasion with violence, and the polysemic nature of theory, generated both interest and critique.
Jennifer Emerling Bone, Cindy L. Griffin, T. M. Linda Scholz   +2 more
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Rhetorical Moves in Chinese Sales Genres, 1949 to the Present

Journal of Business Communication, 2000
This paper examines the development of sales genres in mainland China in the pre-reform period (1949-78) and the reform period (1978 to the present). In the first period, sales qingshi (requests raised by subordi nates), sales pifu (official replies), and sales tongzhi (circulars) were used.
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Managerial elites making rhetorical and linguistic ‘moves’ for a moving (emotional) display

Human Relations, 2004
This article contributes to sociological studies of emotions in organizations. It resides upon an innovative move to extend the ethnographic approach to include audio-recording, in this case managerial elites’ naturally occurring interactions, to provide the basis for an ‘empirical filling out’ of emotions research.
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The rhetorical moves of abstracts in thesis

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023
F. Zubir, I. Suryani, S. Abdullah
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“American Empire” as an Analytic Question or a Rhetorical Move?

International Studies Perspectives, 2008
Recent events have led to a renewed scholarly interest in empire and the question whether the United States and its policies abroad constitute an “American Empire.” This essay clarifies the various uses of the term and argues that conceptual overstretching retards scholarly analysis of the phenomenon.
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