Using counterfactuals to display facts – the case of satirical humor by Maslo Adi

“…Interestingly enough, counterfactuals oppose the actual state of affairs; rhetorically however, they show potential to reveal the truth. …”
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De la retórica a la ficción by Leonardo Funes

“…The conventional acceptance of textual citation words pronounced by historical characters was included in the "historiographical" pact (the public accepts the poetical or rhetorical license as an expression of the most profound dimension of historical truth).However, when Alphonsine and Post-Alphonsine chroniclers began to incorporate dialogues in direct speech, this convention was a challenge for the claim to truth made by chronicle narratives.This article aims to trace the evolution of the use of direct speech from Alphonsine historiography to the historiography of John II of Castile, in order to evaluate its impact on the historical and fictional narrative forms.…”
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Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“… Since the eighteenth century the history of the Jesuit missionary endeavours in South America, especially their forced closure in 1760s, has been used rhetorically by writers in several genres, providing them with historical evidence to support a variety of latter-day causes. …”
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The sequoia files : L’arbre merveilleux by François Brunet

“…Centering on the sequoia as a challenge to representation, this literature tends to describe the logic of exploration in purely rhetorical terms, and thus to translate the otherness of the frontier into a space of language play, which seems typical of the Victorian era.…”
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Sémiotique de l’enterrement prématuré : le féminisme à l’ère du postféminisme by Mary Hawkesworth

“…Treating the texts of feminism’s death as forms of meaning-making ripe for semiotic analysis, the paper explores the rhetorical mechanisms by which feminism’s death is produced and the means by which alternative representations of the corpse of feminism are linked to particular assumptions about the nature of feminism. …”
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Embodied sharpness: exploring the slicing gesture in political talk shows by Silva H. Ladewig

“…By contributing to the understanding of recurrent gestures as multimodal resources in political discourse, the paper sheds light on the interplay between embodied communication and rhetorical style.…”
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L’écriture de la nature chez Barry Lopez : enjeux et stratégies by Yves-Charles Grandjeat

“…This leads to an investigation of Lopez’s politics and rhetorics of negative presentation, which fully registers how nature resists language and representation. …”
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FACILITATING INTERPRETIVE RESILIENCE: by G O West

“…While the notion of the Bible as a site of struggle had its conceptualisation within historical-critical redaction criticism, literary-narrative and literary-rhetorical criticisms provide similar kinds of “critical” recognition of ideo-theological contestation within the biblical text, whether the final form or a socio-historically reconstructed redactional edition. …”
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President Bolsonaro’s Promises and Actions on Corruption Control by Paul Lagunes, Gregory Michener, Fernanda Odilla, Breno Pires

“…However, it is worth cautioning that anticorruption as a rhetorical device has been a near-permanent feature of the Brazilian political landscape. …”
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De la santé environnementale à la justice environnementale : l'enjeu de l'asthme infantile dans le South Bronx (New York) by Flaminia Paddeu

“…But since the 1980's, asthma in New York has been used as a political and rhetorical tool serving environmental justice advocacy. …”
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JOHANNINE WOMEN AS PARADIGMS IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT by J. Thomaskutty

“…Persons such as the mother of Jesus, the Samaritan woman, Mary and Martha of Bethany, and Mary Magdalene appear in the Gospel of John as representative figures and rhetorical characters. The Johannine narrator foregrounds the women characters as they use their freedom in both the Sitz-Im-Leben Jesu and the Sitz-Im-Leben Kirche. …”
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Education for Sustainable Development in Primary School: Improvement of Students’ Ecocriticism Skills by Ahmet Tekbiyik, Mustafa Celik

“…Data of the study were obtained with rhetorical discussion, analytical discussion, mind maps, and drawings. …”
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Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) by Luca Di Gregorio

“…Through a historical and comparative approach, the coureurs des bois’ adventure will be compared with the classical language of the Western (deciphering vs. settlement, walking vs. mounting, tracking vs. invasion and conquest) so as to insist on the alternative value brought by the adventurous “sauvagisme” (mainly European) in contrast with pioneers/settlers stories which were inspired, during the same period, by the rhetorics of the manifest destiny and the frontier.…”
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A morte em forma de poesia: comoção, indignação e reivindicação em cordéis midiatizados by Simone Mendes

“…his article makes a reflection departing from the analyzes that are being developed in my doctoral research, whose focus builds itself departing from the existence of an argumentative dimension in cordel literature, that makean interface with the information media. In a rhetorical argumentation, logical thought and demonstration aren’t enough to guarantee the efficiency of the interaction, because, while basing itself on the interlocutor adhesion to a thesis, through belief, other re-requirements are raised and need to be observed, like the speaker ethos or his honesty, sincerity, sense of justice, seriousness and reliability; the pathos or the ability of raising emotions in the public logos or the discourse itself and its rationality, using by the speaker to reinforce his point of view and his socio-discursive representations around the given theme. …”
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The linguistic, conceptual, and pragmatic challenges of communicating Galatians 3:1-14 in Chewa by Ernst Wendland

“… The aim of this study is, first of all, to present a rhetorically oriented analysis of the central pericope of 3:1-14, with special reference to its pertinent oral-aural qualities. …”
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Andinos y buenos cristianos. La inversión en lo sagrado en los trámites legales de dos caciques en el virreinato del Perú (siglo xvi) by Elfie Guyau

“…From the second half of the 16th century onwards, the argument of exemplary Christian behaviour became a common rhetorical tool in the Andean caciques’ legal procedures. …”
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“All shadow and silence in it” (3.1.247-48): Reticence in Measure for Measure by Denis Lagae-Devoldere

“…Measure for Measure, a play about the failure of rhetorical persuasion, turns reticence into emphasis.…”
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The Influence of Genre Constraints on Author Representation in Medical Research Articles. The French Indefinite Pronoun On in IMRAD Research Articles by Anje Müller Gjesdal

“…The main hypothesis is that the IMRAD structure entails a specific distribution of macro level textual structures (author roles, argumentation, rhetorical functions), and that this is reflected in the distribution of micro level linguistic markers, such as the pronoun on. …”
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STRUCTURAL METAPHOR OF LOVE IN ENGLISH SONGS IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY FROM STYLISTIC AND COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES by Nguyen Thi Hong Thu

“…The writer analyzed 46 structural metaphors to find out conceptual meaning transference from the vehicles to the tenors from cognitive perspectives and the rhetorical value distributed to songs from stylistic perspectives. …”
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Communicative Functions of Code Glosses in Academic Discourse by Hüseyin Kafes

“…Analysis of the corpus revealed that reformulation and exemplification, complex features of academic writing, serve important rhetorical functions. The results also show that these two groups of writers manage writer-reader relationship differently, differing in the type, number, (un)even distribution, and use of code glosses. …”
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