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, 1980 The religious works (chiefly sermons) of the early American Anglican and then Episcopalian clergy are by custom and design based on and informed by classical rhetoric as interpreted by the Renaissance and inherited by the Enlightenment.
MCDONALD, PATRICIA MARY
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Economica, EarlyView.Abstract I argue that economists' distinction between ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ economic theory is often based on papers' stylistic markers rather than their methodology or scope. I illustrate this point with a model of price competition for boundedly rational consumers, due to Piccione and Spiegler. I first present its original, ‘pure style’ version.
Ran Spiegler
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The study was conducted with the aim of translating some selected tropes in Louise Mushikiwabo’s campaign discourse when she was vying for the post of Secretary General of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF).
Ntabajyana, Sylvestre +2 more
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The Place for Form in Wollheim's Lectures on Formalism and Pictorial Organization
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract At the time of his death, Richard Wollheim was writing a short book on Formalism and Pictorial Organization. Much of it, but by no means all of it, had been published before (it has come out posthumously in its entirety in late 2025). Here I do two things. First, I have provided a rather detailed exegesis concentrating on the parts of the book
Gary Kemp
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Reassessing Heidegger on Van Gogh: Artistic Experience as Contextual Displacement
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a novel account of Heidegger's long‐debated discussion of a painting of shoes by Van Gogh in ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’. I argue that the Van Gogh episode is best understood as a carefully staged textual enactment of Heidegger's conception of artistic experience, properly construed.
Andrea Vitangeli
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Rhetorical Brilliance and Persuasive Strategies in Zafarnama: A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis.
The Zafarnama is a famous epistle by Guru Gobind Singh to the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb. What makes this letter remarkable is that it was written after the Battle of Chamkaur in 1705, where Guru Gobind Singh's ...
Gopal, N. R.
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Does an optimistic tone in annual reports predict better financial and non‐financial performance?
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract In the current paper, we investigate whether management adopts an optimistic disclosure tone to impress the corporate audience or to provide incremental information (II) by anticipating positive corporate performance. Specifically, we test whether an optimistic tone in annual reports (ARs) is a positive predictor of better financial and non ...
Francesco Gangi +3 more
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Organisational dehumanisation: Authority as remedy
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract According to orthodoxy, the human relations movement was a watershed in rehumanising scientifically managed workplaces. In the wake of such purported reform, pundits (theorists and practitioners alike) have typically taken for granted that 21st century approaches to workplace superintendence, birthed in the wake of the Hawthorne Studies and ...
Jean‐Etienne Joullié +2 more
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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci +3 more
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
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