A Sense of Time(ly) Seeing in DeLillo’s Later Novels by Stefania Iliescu

“…Unlike his novels published before 2000, where the presence of images leads to a phenomenon of hyperreality, DeLillo’s later fiction develops a rhetoric of seeing which gives rise to a reading experience that has the power to reveal the present to the readers. …”
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Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature during the normalisation period by Olha Norba

“…Prominent themes included environmental pollution, warnings against the loss of humanity, calls for peace, fear of nuclear catastrophe, and condemnation of power domination and totalitarian rhetoric. Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature of the normalisation period proved to be an effective way to re-evaluate the traditional black-and-white vision of society, which was viewed as divided into the “fighting dissent” and the masses blindly accepting the ruling regime.…”
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The Happy Warrior: Winston Churchill and the Representation of War, 1895–1901 by Antoine Capet

“…In all this, Churchill’s sense for self-publicity, which necessitated a glorification of war (no danger—no merit—no glory), seems to have projected a very misleading image of war as it really was at the turn of the century—his later description of these wars as “cruel and magnificent”, as opposed to the “cruel and squalid” war of 1914–1918 appears to belong with the celebrated “Churchill rhetoric”, in tune with the jingoistic atmosphere of the times, rather than historical fact.…”
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Connectivism, Chaos and Chaoids by Peter Shukie

“…The impact of this growing sense of chaos on education seems significant if uncertain, generating transformative rhetoric if often ambiguous around what has been transformed. …”
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Investigating the Role of Pragmatics in Cross-Cultural Communication: A Comparative Analysis of Speech Acts in Different Cultures by Rasha Hussan

“…The study draws on speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and Winston Churchill to illustrate different communication styles shaped by cultural contexts, with King's emotionally charged rhetoric reflecting American values and Churchill's firm tone embodying British pragmatism. …”
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One year of Donald Tusk’s government: what has changed in Poland? by Oleg Yu. Mikhalev

“…The most noticeable changes were only the change in the rhetoric of the mass media, which was rapidly taken out of the control of the Law and Justice party, and the making of numerous allegations against the losing party and its individual members. …”
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Les appels de Margaret Fell pour convertir les Juifs : de l’émancipation à la soumission chez la première femme Quaker by Frédéric Herrmann

“…Yet, the full force of Fell’s rhetoric of conversion, steeped in the spiritualistic Quaker denunciation of Jewish legalism tends to mitigate this picture. …”
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»Ogni sorte de gradi, & di armonia«. Aspekte des Paradoxen in Jacobus Gallus’ Motette Mirabile mysterium by Markus Roth

“…The interpretative commentary deals with some parallel cases in cinquecento madrigals and concepts of paradoxical rhetoric and mannerism.…”
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Charles, the Prince of Wales at the Court of Philip IV of Spain: the «Incognito» Trip and the Problem of Exchanging Gifts by P. Yu. Kosheleva

“…Nevertheless, this ritual has not lost its symbolism and significance in the rhetoric of negotiations. Gifts were used as a means of communication, an indicator of the influence of states and the way of their self-presentation.…”
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Involvement in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Work: Conceptions of Service Users by Minna Laitila, Merja Nikkonen, Anna-Maija Pietilä

“…In practice, however, there are indicators of SUI remaining rhetoric rather than reality. The purpose of this study was to analyse and describe service users' conceptions of SUI in mental health and substance abuse work. …”
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L’humanitaire islamique et les ONG musulmanes en France : quels registres de mobilisation ? by Lucas Faure

“…By contrast with the republican rhetoric that stigmatizes faith-based differences, the French State entrusts Muslim associations with caring for Muslim beneficiaries. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…In keeping with their involvement in Chartism, the Cavendish hoax enlists the rhetoric of ‘Old Corruption’ to support Chartist ideals, especially the political awakening of the ‘industrious millions’. …”
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The EU Public Diplomacy in the United States under the D. Trump Administration: Challenges, Key Projects and Outcomes by A. N. Marchukov

“…The apparent cooling in transatlantic relations provoked by harmful rhetoric and practices of D. Trump administration forced the EU to focus on non-traditional channels of interacting with the American audience. …”
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RUSSIAN RESEARCH AND HIGHER EDUCATION SYLLABI ON POST-SOVIET SPACE: PRIORITIES IN TERMINOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF COURSES by Y. A. Nikitina

“…The article is devoted to the analysis of the key concepts used in the undergraduate and graduate courses on the post-Soviet region, of the link between these concepts and the official rhetoric based on the foreign policy documents. Major research questions of the article are: how is the international political region on the ex-Soviet space is called? …”
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Proverbs and African Modernity: Defining an Ethics of Becoming by Oyekan Owomoyela

“…Another evidence of the interest the subject has enjoyed among African scholars is the wealth of publications they have produced in recent years, for example, Adeleke Adeeko’s monograph Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature; Ambrose Adikamkwu Monye’s Proverbs in African Orature: The Aniocha-Igbo Experience; Kwesi Yankah’s The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric: A Theory of Proverb Praxis; and my Yoruba Proverbs. …”
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The The Transformative Power of Cultural Heritage: The Avant-garde of the Interwar Period at the Exhibitions of the Museum of Art in Łódź towards the Conservative Turn by Piotr Słodkowski

“… The article is a critical response to the populist rhetoric utilized in Poland in the aftermath of the 2015 elections. …”
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Peace journalism as ideology or peace journalism as a semiotic act of world and life view? by Pieter Jacobus Fourie

“…This article deals in consecutive parts with the topics peace journalism, world and life view as a construct and its possible application in the field of peace journalism, and journalism as a semiotic act, characterised by signification, representation, rhetoric and dialogue as four of the main building blocks of journalistic communication, including peace journalism. …”
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THE PHENOMENON OF SILVIO BERLUSCONI by A. Y. Kovaleva

“…Most of the discussion was centered on party's antiestablishment rhetoric, its lack of traditional organization, consistent political agenda and controversial nature of the main leader. …”
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The Origins of the Idea of “Civilizational” Multipolarity in Russian Religious Thought (from 19^th to First Half of 20^th Century) by M. M. Medovarov

“…Religious ideas and rhetoric, including the trope of «Babylonian confusion», played a significant role in the Eurasianists' justification of their preferred international order.…”
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DECOLONIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND INTERCULTURAL “DAHLEZ” by N. T. Nurulla-Khodzhaeva

“…Finding one's way out of this maze created by the rhetoric of the nations and the logic of coloniality (as Kuidjano) is a very real issue. …”
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