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Rhetorical criticism and the hermeneutics of the New Testament
In die Skriflig, 2000 It is argued that rhetorical criticism is increasingly recognized as a method of interpretation of biblical literature. From the discussion in this article it becomes clear that there are different perspectives of rhetorical criticism just as there are ...
E.M. Cornelius
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The Discursive Functions of zar-Questions in Macedonian and Serbian
Balcania et SlaviaThis paper explores polar questions introduced by the particle zar in standard Macedonian and Serbian. The pragmatic-discourse properties of zar-questions, despite being a distinct type, remain understudied.
Mitkovska, Liljana, Bužarovska, Eleni
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Die implikasies van stellings as kategorie van nie-egte vrae in Romeine
Acta Theologica, 2001 This article argues that non-authentic questions have certain clear implications when used as rhetorical instruments in Paul’s Letter to the Romans. These questions are abstracted as a category in accordance with Verster (1999).
P. Verster
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The Potential of Negation Questions for Affecting the Audience in Dehkhoda's Amsal-o-Hekam [PDF]
Literary ArtsThe negation question is one of the rhetorical questions that are widely used in language and literature. Poets and writers use it according to the situation to persuade the audience.
Zohre Ahmadipooranari +2 more
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Modality force and syntax in an understudied class of reduced why-questions in English
Glossa, 2020 This paper analyzes the syntactic and interpretive components of a frequently used but understudied type of reduced why-question in English, referred to as Why-VP, as in why take Structure of Japanese?
Anissa Zaitsu
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Functional typological approach to Shawi indeterminate pronouns
Liames, 2019 This study describes the formation of indeterminate pronouns in Shawi, which is a class of proforms that can have interrogative, indefinite, and free relative senses. These interpretations are only distinguished through a class of clitics, e.g.
Luis Ulloa
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Mode in Arabic-English Translation: with Reference to the Quran
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2019 A rhetorical question has the form of a question but does not perform its function, i.e. does not seek any information but rather, is used to give a specific or rhetoric function such as denial, assertion, testing, equalization and negation.
Ibrahim II Najjar +2 more
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Attribution of de re propositional attitudes as a means of persuasion
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2023 By de re propositional attitude ascription for rhetorical purposes, we will understand uttering a modal statement wherein the speaker deliberately uses a description of the attitude’s object which she knows to be unavailable to the attitude holder.
Daniel B. Tiskin
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Rhetorical devices in selected banking advertisements in Nigeria
Inkanyiso, 2021 Banking is one of the sectors that have deployed the resourcefulness of the new media for business transactions in Nigeria. Studies from the non-linguistic angle have established immense contributions of the sector to economic growth in Nigeria.
Temidayo Akinrinlola
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RHETORICAL QUESTIONS AS A WAY OF REALIZING PERSUASIVE STRATEGY IN COURT DISCOURSE
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2020 Purpose. The article is devoted to the study of linguistic means in realizing communicative intentions within cognitive and discourse paradigm that explains importance of this research. The author aims to study the realization of persuasive strategy with
Marina Olegovna Osetrova
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