« My dear audacious Moore » : les poses de l’artiste décadent dans Confessions of a Young Man by Fabienne Gaspari

“…The autobiographical persona plays with rhetorical positions and intertextual references, both integrating and imitating literary influences and going beyond them through parody. …”
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New Approach to the Yakut Language Dictionary: Preface as Paratext by Elena Stepanovna Rufova

“…By analyzing Pekarsky’s rhetorical strategies, such as his self-presentation and engagement with the reader, the study reveals how the preface communicates the significance of the dictionary’s creation. …”
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Mercy Otis Warren, the American Revolution and the Classical Imagination by Eran Shalev

“…In her works Warren put to use a set of powerful and unique rhetorical modes for incorporating and merging America and the classical world. …”
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Séquence d’introduction de discours représenté : faire ou dire ? by Lotfi Abouda, Nina Rendulic

“…This process, along with its rhetorical function of sustaining active listening and involvement by the interlocutor, allows the speaker to conceal an underlying argumentative issue.…”
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The methodological meaning of the concept of the culture of National Liberation by Paulius Subačius

“…These concepts are meant to define in all complexity the changes of rhetorical and ideological configurations of fictive literature and social communication of the XIX century in Lithuania. …”
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Analyzing accusation patterns between Hamas and Israel during the Al-Aqsa flood operation by Alaeddin A. Banikalef, Nisreen N. Al-Khawaldeh

“…This study introduced a rigorously defined framework for categorizing accusations in conflict discourse, contributing to both rhetorical theory and conflict communication strategies. …”
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Storytelling: Performance, Presentations and Sacral Communication by Zoltán Bódis

“…In this communication the tale telling is transformed by a language use characteristic of sacral communication (rhythm, repetition and rhetorical forms). Various examples explain that traditional tale telling creates a complex effect related to the visual, auditory, and kinetic senses: a modification and transformation of the self-understanding and self-identity that connect the world of tale telling to sacral communication.…”
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On the Spaces of Guerre Moderne: The French Army in Northern Algeria (1954–1962) by Samia Henni

“…The French Colonial War of Anti-Algerian Independence (1954–1962) is widely regarded as the precursor of civil-military counterinsurgency operations, and thereby of the rhetorical Global War on Terror of today. Its theories, known as the guerre moderne, were secretly transferred to North and South America in the sixties. …”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…The purpose of this article is to analyse these conflicting accounts of a single event, taking into account the authors’ experiences and the readership they were writing for, in order to show how ideological discourse is elaborated through the rhetorical use of historical facts.…”
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On tenses as speech-act-level functions by Patrick Caudal

“…From these two facts, the paper concludes that NIMPF utterances refer to imperfectively viewed narrative speech act events, and constitute a separate speech act-level conventionalized reading of the imparfait, applying an imperfective viewpoint meaning to relational speech act functions, i.e., to rhetorical relations. It is argued that they should be endowed with a speech act event argument, and constitute an abstract type of event predicate which the viewpoint meaning of the NIMPF takes as its input. …”
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For Good Reason: Analyzing How Students Define Difficulty in RateMyProfessor.com Comments by Alexis Teagarden, Michael Carlozzi

“…We argue that the comment section of student evaluations of teaching (SET) offers a rich site for studying student perspectives on teaching and learning, particularly how students define and value course and instructor difficulty. Employing rhetorically grounded approaches to computer-assisted corpus analysis, we compared 4,600 RateMyProfessors.com instructor profiles meeting the criteria of 1) instructors with high difficulty and high overall quality scores or 2) instructors with high difficulty but low overall quality scores. …”
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The Same Conversational Page? by Adrienne Jankens, Nicole Guinot Varty, Anna Lindner, Linda Jimenez, Anita Mixon, Carly Braxton, K.M. Begian-Lewis

“… Through surveys and focus group conversations, we studied students' experiences with instruction in writing-intensive (WI) courses at our urban R1 university and their awareness of and attitudes about linguistic and rhetorical diversity. Specifically, we explore discrepancies  between students' experiences with languaging, language judgment, and our university’s diversity and our goals as teacher-scholars who seek a university context more ready for writing instruction that embraces linguistic diversity. …”
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Once more on musical topics and style analysis. A critical examination of Agawu’s analysis of the introduction to Beethoven’s Pathetic Sonata by Ana Stefanovic

“…Finally, the question arises of whether an ‘atomistic’, taxonomic approach to musical “topics” denies – contrary to the intentions of the authors using this term – the semantic aspect of music in which the topics ‘may be found,’ reducing it to the ‘play’ of formal elements, i.e. to purely ornamental function of rhetorical locus communis. Should the place of topic/topos perhaps be looked for elsewhere, in the plane of discourse and narrative structure of the musical text?…”
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This is Not a Nest by Jean-Pierre Chupin

“…Although the architecture competition has been analysed through a number of rhetorical lenses, the recurring production of transcultural metaphors, particularly in international competitions, remains to be addressed as a genuine disciplinary phenomenon. …”
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Derrida and his shadow by Ronell Avital

“…Are philosophers, while rhetorically armed to the teeth, basically unarmed warriors, politically hungry, as in the differently deposed cases of Plato and Heidegger? …”
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The 2022 Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for the South African universities’ research economy by Keyan Tomaselli

“…In justifying the weakening of copyright protections with regard to the educational arena, the Bill’s proponents have largely applied rhetorical discourses published in the popular media, also aggressively propagated at their public meetings. …”
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The Information-Structural Status of Adjuncts: A Question-under-Discussion-Based Approach by Lisa Brunetti, Kordula De Kuthy, Arndt Riester

“…As such, they have an information structure of their own and are in a rhetorical relation with their host clause. Our analysis sheds light on the similarities between adjuncts and Potts’ (2005) supplements. …”
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Pekić's paradoxology and Serbian identity by Stanojević Dobrivoje Ž.

“…In this paper, the author approaches the research of Borislav Pekić's poetics of paradoxology in the novel Golden Fleece from a stylistic and rhetorical point of view. Pekić's search for Serbian identity, with a special reference to immanent paradoxology in this novel, was achieved through a series of related ironic-parodical procedures that lead to a deeper insight into the changes and the constants of Serbian identity. …”
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THE ROLE OF GENDER IN THE USE OF LANGUAGE IN ONLINE INTERACTIONS: KURDISH INTERLOCUTORS AS NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS by Bikhtiyar Fattah

“…The most two significant concluding points that this study has come up with are: (1) gender diversity affects all the aspects of language including word choice, strategy and style in online interactions, and (2) the frequency of using hedge devices, empty adjectives, euphemistic expressions, apologies, justifications, minimal responses, emoticons, tag-questions, rhetorical questions, intensifiers and exclamatory expressions used by females is far more compared to males. …”
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Metadiscourse in Lithuanian linguistics research articles: A study of interactive and interactional features by Anna Ruskan, Greta Maslauskienė

“…Based on the analysis of 30 Lithuanian research articles in the field of linguistics, this exploratory investigation reveals rhetorical strategies utilized by professional authors to construct a coherent text and engage their audiences in the chosen disciplinary domain. …”
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