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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"RHETORICAL TROPES"”.
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NARRATED TRAVEL AND RHETORICAL TROPES: PRODUCING "THE TURK" IN THE TRAVEL WRITING OF CYPRUS, 1955-2005
… produce in light of these encounters function rhetorically, informing cultural relations among people of different societies. When the efforts of these travel writers are taken to be rhetorical, critics position themselves to identify how ethics, politics, and aesthetics of narration and …
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Effective framing strategies for service advertising: The impact of narrative, rhetorical tropes and argument on consumer response across different service categories
This thesis investigates the role of information framing strategies for services advertising. The framing strategy refers to the distinguishable pattern in the manifest advertisement (McQuarrie and Mick 1996) and represents the structural composition of the information presented (Tsai 2007). …
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Effective framing strategies for services advertising: The impact of narrative, rhetorical tropes and argument on consumer response across different service categories
This thesis investigates the role of information framing strategies for services advertising. The framing strategy refers to the distinguishable pattern in the manifest advertisement (McQuarrie and Mick 1996) and represents the structural composition of the information presented (Tsai 2007). …
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Stain Upon the Silence: Samuel Beckett’s Deconstructive Inventions
… study correlates deconstructive invention with rhetorical tropes – metonomy, synecdoche, metaphor, and irony – to create depiction-based persuasion, which asks the rhetor to suspend logic and evoke emotional response.</p>
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Words for wood: the lexis of trees in Old English poetry
… from it. By the creative use of these words in rhetorical tropes and formulas the texts exploit the demands of the form to develop wide-ranging and multi-layered shades of meaning. Trees are shown to define the bounds of community and to delineate the roles of both people and artefacts within …
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The Rhetoric of Repugnance: Popular Culture and Unpopular Notions in the Human Cloning Debate
… so, they employed science-fiction stories as rhetorical tropes, thereby providing the public with a frame for understanding the social issues involved with cloning. However, these institutions used science fiction as a way to simplify and present ethical arguments that silenced dissent rather …
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Signaling Through the Flames: Theatre Fires and Disaster Sociology
… the Flames” argues that the narrative and rhetorical tropes used to construct these official histories reinforce and reinscribe the systems of social order that were disrupted and made visible by the disaster event, and thus contribute meaningfully and importantly to the necessary …
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An Investigation of the Sculpture/Language Homology
… process that links associations in the manner of rhetorical tropes. In a polysemic interaction of visual identities this semantic transposition of a sculptural aesthetic aims to expose relationships connecting expressive material form, image semiosis and object/word associations. The sculptural …
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Distinctive Complications in the Articles of Paul De Man
… we consider to be part of which wholes and what rhetorical tropes we use to move from parts to wholes and vice versa. Then, in a second moment, I analyze how on implicating ourselves in the process of relating parts to wholes we invariably enter the revolving door process (the ""distinctive …
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Ο ΧΕΙΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΚΟΜΙΚΣ (1950-ΣΗΜΕΡΑ)
… PREFACES, POINTING OUT THE MAJOR RHETORIC TROPES AS WELL AS THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND. IT IS ALSO SEARCHING FOR ICONOGRAPHIC TROPES AND CENSORSHIP TO THE WORKS OF ANTIQUITY.