Asking Too Much? The Rhetorical Role of Questions in Political Discourse
, 2017 Questions play a prominent role in social interactions, performing rhetorical functions that go beyond that of simple informational exchange. The surface form of a question can signal the intention and background of the person asking it, as well as the ...
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cristian +2 more
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Scaffolding Reflection: Prompting Social Constructive Metacognitive Activity in Non-Formal Learning [PDF]
, 2017 The study explores the effects of three different types of non-adaptive, metacognitive scaffolding on social, constructive metacognitive activity and reflection in groups of non-formal learners. Six triads of non-formal learners were assigned randomly to
Farrell Frey, Tracie +2 more
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A multi-cue study to the interpretation of German information-seeking and rhetorical questions
Laboratory PhonologyThe meaning of an utterance can be conveyed by a number of prosodic cues, but their relative contribution is often unclear. We tested the interpretation of German questions as information-seeking (Experiment 1) and rhetorical (Experiment 2) in large ...
Angela James +6 more
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On Means of Expressing Author’s Modality in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”
Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie, 2016 The article considers specificity of implementing one of the major structure-and-substance constituent of the semantic category of modality – the author's modality in the Old Russian epic "The Tale of Igor's Campaign".
Svetlana Sergeevna Vaulina
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Rhetorical Reading Redundant: A Response to Ehud Ben Zvi
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2009 Ehud Ben Zvi's claim, in the preceding article, that the final verse of Jonah must be read both as a question and an affirmation is welcomed. Yet, it is argued here that reading a rhetorical question contributes little to the metaprophetic character of ...
Philippe Guillaume
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What Has Aristotle to do with Paul? Rhetorical Criticism and 1 Thessalonians
Tyndale Bulletin, 1995 This article considers the application of rhetorical critical methods to 1 Thessalonians, summarising the approaches of significant scholars before considering the rhetorical genre of the letter.
Steve Walton
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Brazilian Portuguese in-situ wh-interrogatives between rhetoric and change
Glossa, 2019 Previous studies of the historical development of partial interrogatives have postulated a change from contexts in which the proposition of the interrogative has been explicitly mentioned in the previous discourse, to contexts in which the proposition is
Malte Rosemeyer
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“Above all Greek, above all Roman Fame”: Classical Rhetoric in America during the Colonial and Early National Periods [PDF]
, 2011 The broad and profound influence of classical rhetoric in early America can be observed in both the academic study of that ancient discipline, and in the practical approaches to persuasion adopted by orators and writers in the colonial period, and during
Farrell, James M.
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The Acceptability of Rhetorical Question Translation in Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton [PDF]
, 2018 This study aims to identify the function of rhetorical questions and to describe the quality of the translation in terms of acceptability on the novel of Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton and its Indonesian translation Lima Sekawan Di Pulau Harta ...
Djatmika, D. (Djatmika) +2 more
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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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