The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese: a cross-cultural perspective by Agnieszka Solska

“…Whether perceived as “the lowest form of wit” or a lofty rhetorical device, they perform a wide range of functions which are often grounded in distinct cultural and historical backgrounds they are embedded in. …”
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A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF FRAUD AND CORRUPTION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR by Corina BOLOȘ

“…It is also very true that in the analysis and evaluation of these phenomena, sometimes rhetorical notions are used, inaccurate or exaggerated statements are made. …”
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A Discourse Coherence Analysis Method Combining Sentence Embedding and Dimension Grid by Lanlan Jiang, Shengjun Yuan, Jun Li

“…However, existing coherence models focus on measuring individual aspects of coherence, such as lexical overlap, entity centralization, rhetorical structure, etc., lacking measurement of the semantics of text. …”
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An emerging grounded theory for preaching on poverty in South Africa with Matthew 25:31-46 as sermon text by H. J. C. Pieterse

“…It has a bearing only on the qualitative analysis of the texts of the sermons on this text in Matthew, and does not address the entire process of the preaching event from the sermon text, the rhetorical and communicative process. It only covers the sermon analyses and the effects on the listeners’ actions on the sermons mentioned in the sermons. …”
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Performing the Void: The Violence of the Unassimilated in Some Contemporary British Narratives by Jean-Michel Ganteau

“…The vulnerable text is vulnerable, precisely, because it opens up to that which is not said or known, because it is dependent on presenting that which it can only keep silent, and in so far as it becomes a rhetorical or figural symptom, expressing and performing some heteronomy to the wound. …”
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Biblical Intertextuality in Ferran de Pol by Josep V. Garcia Raffi, Xavier Garcia Raffi

“…Ferran de Pol’s rewriting of the Bible has multiple and heterogeneous functions: in some cases it acts as the central axis of a specific work, in others it has compositional, rhetorical, satirical, conceptual or parodic functions. …”
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Recurrent and current trends in the study of the Book of Psalms by N.L. deClaissé- Walford

“…In the late 20th nd early 21st centuries, other approaches to the Psalter emerged such as, among others, rhetorical criticism, liberation theology, feminist criticism, the psalms and spirituality, and so forth – the current trends. …”
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Imaginaires de nature sauvage dans la théorie et la pratique de Gilles Clément by Camilla Barbero

“…It seeks to understand whether one may identify resonances of the sublime in the surprise Clément evokes when faced with the chaotic initiative and the impermanence of an inventive pioneering vegetation. This rhetorical and aesthetic concept of the sublime is looked at from a wider perspective. …”
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Ali se mudou a aventura… O imaginário mítico no pensamento de Luís Krus by Carlos F. Clamote Carreto

“…From “A morte das fadas” (1985) to the study of “uma variante peninsular do mito de Melusina” (1994), through the reflections on “As origens lendárias dos condes de Trastâmara” (1992), the myth – as a dynamic structure which creates and organizes an unified vision of the world – echoes repeatedly and obsessively in the thought of Luís Krus. Recognizing the rhetorical, anthropological and ideological importance of the fictional narrative for the legitimization of the lineage and the construction of a discourse on the past, Luís Krus has devoted not only his work to an important renewal of the traditional viewpoints of Portuguese Medieval Historiography. …”
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'n Estetika van Televisievermaak by Pieter Jacobus Fourie

“…Amongst other possibilities specific rhetorical motifs which have always been associated with communication pleasure and which are also present in the content (and forum) of television fiction. …”
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“Neither knowing nor not knowing”: Existential Anxiety and Ecological Certainty in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin by Peter Vernon

“…Merwin’s poetry expresses loss through apophatic arguments, and rhetorically through praeteritio, and antithesis, which create an elegiac tone in the evocation of place. …”
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Force de la pudeur by Suzanne Fraysse

“…Other slave narratives are then examined to show how the slave narrators’ reticence does not simply stem from their desire to live up to the prudish expectations of their readers but constitutes a rhetorical strategy aiming at opposing fugitive slaves abiding by conservative moral values to slaveholders whose profligacy blurs the conventional boundaries between males and females, Blacks and Whites, animals and human beings. …”
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Ecritures autobiographiques, remémoration et enjeux symboliques by Christine Plasse-Bouteyre

“…Our objectives will therefore be to evaluate how these autobiographical productions constitute specific discursive practices, testamentary and commemorative discourses as statements revealing themselves through rhetorical and formal expressions and precise themes for which we can define the conditions of production and the social and symbolic effects.…”
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Performing Dissent: Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson before HUAC (1955-1956) by Jodie Childers

“…Situating Seeger’s and Robeson’s testimonies within their respective biographical contexts, I offer a close reading of these two documents in juxtaposition, analyzing them not only as historical archives but as rhetorical performances that illustrate how Seeger and Robeson conceptualized national identity while also addressing internationalist concerns. …”
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The Power of Words from the 2024 United States Presidential Debates: A Natural Language Processing Approach by Ana Lorena Jiménez-Preciado, José Álvarez-García, Salvador Cruz-Aké, Francisco Venegas-Martínez

“…This study analyzes the linguistic patterns and rhetorical strategies employed in the 2024 U.S. presidential debates from the exchanges between Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. …”
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“Punk’s Not Dead, It Lives on The Football Terraces”: Tracing The Legacy of Punk in Subcultural Milieu of The Football Firms by Hüseyin Serbes

“…The findings reveal that Punk’s aggressive, rhetorical and satirical aesthetic codes exist in the stands. …”
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The IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor as a deliberate metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian media by Mujagić Mersina, Berberović Sanja

“…Using the IDeM protocol for the identification of deliberate metaphor (Krennmayr, 2011), the paper also focuses on the rhetorical potential and the effects of the use of deliberate metaphors in the media discourse. …”
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Modalités de diffusion et rhétoriques des discours misogynes et misogames imprimés à la Renaissance by Tatiana Clavier

“…The first misogynistic and misogamistic printed discourses were sometimes published under misleading titles or together with inconsistent speeches, always triggering numerous retaliations. Rhetorics in favour of women were sufficiently widespread to appear in advocates of the gender order’s discourses. …”
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Traiettorie del filologicamente corretto. Il campo del folklore nell’operato di un maestro contemporaneo delle danze sarde by Alessandro Deiana

“…The thesis that we intend to demonstrate is that the philologically correct is not only a critical tool at the service of institutional and cultured vision, or a rhetorical tool at the disposal of heritage policies: it can also be used from below for the purpose of a local micro-counter-hegemony. …”
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À quel(s) public(s) s’adresse Darwin ? L’Origine des Espèces, entre ouvrage scientifique, œuvre littéraire, et texte de vulgarisation by Camille Debras

“…The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the rhetorical strategies used by Darwin to persuade his reader of the validity of evolution theory in The Origin of Species. …”
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