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Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales

, 1998
Rhetorical questions, and other varieties of pragmatically conditioned questions, present a challenge for a purely truth-conditional theory of the interpretation of interrogatives.
Gutiérrez Rexach, Javier
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Expression of purpose rhetorical relation in formal speeches and oral interviews

Calidoscópio, 2011
Besides the explicit content conveyed by the clausesof a text, there are implicit propositions called relational propositions (also labeled as rhetorical relations), which arise from the combination of parts of the text. According to Rhetorical Structure
Juliano Desiderato Antonio
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Rhetorical Education in America

Intro -- Contents -- Rhetorical Education in America (A Broad Stroke Introduction) -- Part I: The Implications of Rhetorical Education -- 1. Rhetoric, the "Citizen-Orator," and the Revitalization of Civic Discourse in American Life -- 2.
Denman, William N., Lyday, Margaret Mary., Glenn, Cheryl Jean., Sharer, Wendy Beth., Swiencicki, Jill., Johnson, Nan., Miller, Thomas P., Logan, Shirley Wilson., Lane, Rich., Kates, Susan.   +9 more
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A Rhetorical Move Analysis of Arabic-Language Abstracts in Education and Linguistics : A Comparative Study of Native Arabic and Indonesian Speakers

Asalibuna
writing in Arabic-language academic articles reflects culturally situated rhetorical strategies. This study investigates and compares the rhetorical structures and linguistic features of abstracts written by native Arabic speakers and Indonesian speakers
Jasmine Afifah Humairoh, Mohamad Zaka Al Farisi, Rinaldi Supriadi   +2 more
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Rhetorical structure of introduction chapter in Vietnamese English-majored undergraduate’s theses

Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Social Sciences
This research investigates the rhetorical structure of the Introduction chapter of English major undergraduate theses, adopting Swales’ Create-A-Research-Space framework (Swales, 1990, 2004).
Loan Thi To Pham, Tung Ngoc Vu
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Building Up Rhetorical Structure Trees

, 1996
I use the distinction between the nuclei and the satellites that pertain to discourse relations to introduce a compositionality criterion for discourse trees. I provide a first-order formalization of rhetorical structure trees and, on its basis, I derive
Daniel Marcu Department, Daniel Marcu
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Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation

COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Citizenship as a Rhetorical Practice (Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen) -- SECTION I: Tracing Rhetorical Citizenship as Concept and Practice -- Chapter 1: Deliberative Democracy ...
Villadsen, Lisa., Kock, Christian.
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Beyond Semantic Drift: Testing Role-Aware Semantic Metrics for Scientific Abstract Organization

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The internal organization of scientfic abstracts remains difficult to quantify, and the contribution of rhetorical-role anchoring relative to simpler representations is unclear.
Ilaria Giovannacci, Marco Meleti, Diana Cassi, Lorenza Dore, Zakie Khodadadiesfichar, Carlo Galli   +5 more
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Measuring discourse coherence in anomic aphasia using Rhetorical Structure Theory. [PDF]

Int J Speech Lang Pathol, 2018
Kong AP, Linnik A, Law SP, Shum WW.
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The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition

Interrogates the story of rhetoric promoted in standard historical accounts and reconsiders the relationship between rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy.Intro -- The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition -- Contents -- Acknowledgments ...
Mailloux, Steven., Atwill, Janet M., Graff, Richard., Walzer, Arthur E.   +3 more
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