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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Orators"”.
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Jurists and Orators: Rhetorical and Legal Perspectives on the Roman Family
… however, has questioned this dichotomy between orators and jurists. In my dissertation, I build on this work to explore the precise nature of the relationship between Roman rhetoric and Roman legal thought during the classical period of Roman law. I will study oratory, in particular Quintilian’s …
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Studies in the Linguistic Variation of Classical Attic and the Attic Orators
… the linguistic resources of the language and how orators pitched the register between the spoken language and the literary tradition.
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Memory in Roman Oratory: Theory and Practice
… Mnemonic techniques allowed speakers (orators, rhetoricians, even certain philosophers) to free themselves from a script and to improvise. In the second half of the thesis, I apply these theoretical findings to delineate real-world scenarios in which mnemonic techniques were used. By …
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Adaptation and alienation : persuasive strategies and audience responses in the rhetorical handbooks, Polybius, Josephus, and the Acts of the Apostles.
… rhetorical theory regarding the ways in which orators should adapt their speeches to suit their particular audiences. It further seeks to demonstrate that ancient historians (including Luke) employed the presentation of speeches as important vehicles whereby they sought to convey well-adapted …
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Battle For the Bible: a Rhetorical Analysis of the Inerrancy Movement in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1979-1985
… the participants, both defender and aggressor orators, portrayed themselves as ''real Southern Baptists," rhetorically claiming their right to be the church by presenting evidence which attempted to prove that their beliefs were the "traditional and historical Baptist" doctrinal positions …
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Men of Letters: The Oratorical and Philosophical Relationship Between Cicero and Brutus
… the scholarly debate on Attic and Asianic orators, arguing against the common notion that Cicero and Brutus were at odds because of their chosen oratorical styles. Chapter Two focuses on the <italic>Brutus</italic>, and argues that Cicero discusses so many orators in order to demonstrate to …
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Religion and Rhetoric at the Courts of the Theodosians, c. 379-404 A.D.
… It does so through the orations of two pagan orators who carved out successful careers for themselves during this period: in the Greek East, at the court of Theodosius I in Constantinople, the Aristotelian philosopher and rhetor, Themistius; in the Latin West, the poet Claudian, who delivered …
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Role of the Narrator in True Crime Documentary Series
… While the narrative paradigm discusses how orators can use narratives to construct arguments, it overlooks the importance of the narrator in framing and judging such narratives. This thesis explores how narrators navigate the technical discourse of law to construct meaning through these …
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Hobo orator union: the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916.
… San Diego, and Everett. I argue that the hobo orators of the free speech fights demonstrate the significance of the oratorical as a revolutionary practice of class composition. In this regard, the dissertation seeks to reveal lessons about the possibilities of revolutionary unionism today.
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In search of Xerxes: images of the Persian king
… presentations of Timotheus, Ctesias and the orators and philosophers of fourth-century Athens. Later Greek sources - primarily Diodorus and Josephus - are then studied, before an analysis of the Xerxes-traditions in Roman thought. Finally the figure of Xerxes in Greek writing of the second …
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Communicating Vision : a Linguistic Analysis of Leadership Speeches
… this linguistic analysis, I found that the four orators used the Appraisal resources of judgment, both positive and negative, to communicate their stance on what was good and what was bad to their listener-followers. Not surprisingly, we were depicted in positive judgment terms while they were …
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My Faith in the Constitution is Whole: Barbara Jordan Signifies on Scriptures
… formidable 19th century African American women orators and political activists, Maria W. Stewart and Anna Julia Cooper, who serve as functional equivalents or precursors to Barbara Jordan. In this study, I found that Barbara Jordan makes American scripture, i.e. the Constitution, function in her …
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Not Angry but Angy: The Rhetorical Effects of Non-Standard Language in Memes
… that have historically been used by authors and orators to create a desired rhetorical effect. These rhetorical figures could include changing the length of a vowel sound, or adding or cutting a syllable. It was found that for each pattern of change, there was a rhetorical figure that matched in …
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Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60
… books, newspapers or national political culture. Orators crucially united their dispersed audiences in national struggles for reform, fomenting discussion and coalescing political opinion, while railways, the telegraph and expanding press reportage allowed speakers and their arguments to circulate …
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Oneida College Lacrosse Players’ Perspectives of the Sacred Game of Lacrosse
… Haudenosaunee style. Oneidas are traditionally orators and lacrosse players. There is a lack of literature on the Oneida, lacrosse, and education. Oneida college lacrosse players face a problem in attempting to preserve their traditional Indigenous knowledge at their respective university …
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Eloquent Wisdom: The Role of Rhetoric and Delight in the Theology of Saint Augustine of Hippo
… whom Augustine portrays in terms of the false orators in Cicero’s De inventione. The devil’s rhetoric comprises an illicit delight in actual sin and an inordinate delight in created goods, both of which exert their power over the human will through suggestion, delight and persuasion and result …
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Linguistic poetic and rhetoric of Eastern Chatino of San Juan Quiahije
… average use of the first person plural pronoun. Orators use this grammatical person to convey humbleness, a sense of community, belonging, and inclusiveness, as well as to evoke feelings of endearment. Finally, San Juan Quiahije oral discourse is performed before an audience for the benefit of …
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Verbalisation of non-verbal communication in classical Greek texts.
… point of departure for my research is the Attic orators. However, the scope of my work is by no means limited to oratory. Descriptions of NVC are used throughout Greek prose and verse, allowing a web of comparable and conflicting usage to be unravelled. Of particular interest to my work is the …
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Gender and exemplarity in Valerius Maximus
… text has viewed it as a mere handbook for orators and as a work of little literary interest, and it is argued here that the work is in fact designed to inspire and teach, to conjure up a vivid display of heroic deeds, and is worthy of close study as a work of literature. Structure, context …
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The Banquet Type-Scene in the Parables of Jesus
… was a narratorial device used by ancient orators and writers in which traditional elements of repetitive compositional patterns were told and retold ininnovative ways to an audience, raising their expectation and sometimes causing surprise. Conventional elements that make up the type-scene …
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