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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Rhetoric Studies"”.
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Expanding the Boundaries: The Value of Composition and Rhetoric Studies in Professional Writing
Composition and rhetoric.
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Seizing the Initiative: Rhetorical Implications of US Army Doctrine
… show that the Army professional embodies the rhetorical concept of kairos. In rhetoric studies, Kairos is understood to be an independent force that a rhetor must accommodate and also as an ability whereby a rhetor creates an opening for action; both models are rooted in reasoned action. …
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A Taste of Rhetoric: Moves & Practices in the Decolonization & Restoration of Historic Foodways
<p>Language and rhetoric are foundational influences on cultural practices, including culinary ones. The subdiscipline of food rhetoric studies communication about the processes of eating, cooking, transporting, and trading food, especially within the cultures of historically marginalized peoples. …
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Seeing a Whole Life: Genre and Identity in Occupational Therapy
A significant body of writing and rhetoric research focuses on the literate practices that reflect or construct the professional self, particularly in disciplines that rely heavily on the use of forms to categorize or identify customers, clients, or patients. Many of these studies examine the …
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Approaching Review: A Heuristic Assisting Scholars Navigating the Publication of Multimodal and Open-Access Webtexts within the Tenure and Promotion Review Process
… of scholarly publishing within English Studies, focusing on the new mediums of digitally born scholarship and open-access scholarship. It does this by presenting a heuristic through which scholars can weigh various options for publication within academia. The goal of this heuristic is to …
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Media rhetoric in South Africa: a case study of the floor crossing debate
This paper makes a critical analysis of media rhetoric in South Africa. It does so by looking at the Floor Crossing Legislation debate. It makes analysis of material, and texts that were reported by different media institutions to create a particular perception by repeatedly stating the same view …
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A rhetorical analysis of the joint sitting on the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission held at Parliament on 15 April 2003
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-164).
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A rhetorical analysis of the budget speeches of South Africa : 1985, 1993, 1994, 2002
… of Finance do this by using ceremonious rhetoric that attempts to unite the people of South Africa under a common vision for the economy. In this thesis, I provide an analysis of the political rhetoric of four Budget Speeches of South Africa, each selected because of their importance in …
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A study of the rhetoric of the 2002 presidential election campaign in Zimbabwe
This study focuses on rhetorical discourse of the 2002 presidential election campaign in Zimbabwe. The thesis analyses the rhetoric used by the two major contenders of this controversial election - the incumbent president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, candidate of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic …
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Treading a tightrope: A rhetorical study of the tension between the executive and collective leadership of the African National Congress (ANC): From Nelson Mandela to Thabo Mbeki
This thesis endeavours to look at the rhetorical techniques or tropes employed by Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in their capacities both as the Presidents of the African National Congress (ANC) and South Africa. In this regard, the speeches of the respective former Presidents are analysed from a …
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The rhetoric of public mourning : the case study of the Ellis Park cleansing ceremony
Bibliography: leaves 39-41.
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Persuasion as a social heuristic: A rhetorical analysis of the making of the constitution of Namibia
The study focuses on the rhetoric used during the drafting of the Constitution of the Republic of Namibia. The thesis will offer a framework for understanding negotiations in terms of distinct and coherent rhetoric. Primary sources for this thesis consist of five volumes of the Hansard of the …
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The rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah: analysis of his political speeches
… circumstances which gave birth to Nkrumah's rhetorical inventions. In terms of the theoretical framework, the study applied three main correlative approaches: Aristotle (2007) on Levels of Proofs and Rhetorical Regimes, Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (1969) on Argument and Lloyd Bitzer on …
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A rhetorical study of the open democracy bill : a Perelmanian approach
Includes bibliography.
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The law's authority to implicitly inscribe the rhetoric of forgiveness through creatures of statute tasked with truth recovery, justice, peace and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda
… thesis presents a socio-legal approach of the rhetoric of law and the rhetoric of forgiveness in bodies legally mandated with reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda. Through a qualitative engagement with literature, the aim is to ascertain whether the law has the …
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Making memory: techne, technology, and the refashioning of contemporary memory
… the tension between interactive technologies and rhetoric re-shape the nature and relevance of the canon of memory? Do interactive technologies affect the ways we remember and persuade? I argue that my interpretation of <i>techne</i> suggests possibilities for the creation and production of new …