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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Rhetorical Criticism"”.
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The Structure of Myth in Rhetorical Criticism
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A Pentadic Contrast Rhetorical Criticism and Journalistic Reporting
… which lead to the varying evaluations of rhetorical and journalistic criticism.
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A rhetorical criticism of the campaign speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson
<p>The 1952 Presidential campaign ushered into national prominence the Democratic nominee, Adlai Ewing Stevenson.</p> <p>His sudden and dramatic emergence as an important factor in world politics was due in part to his unique oratory. Dynamic in style and content, his speeches commanded the rapt …
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Style in rhetorical criticism: The case of Martin Luther's vernacular sermons
… remains a neglected feature of the tradition of rhetorical criticism. A survey of the literature reveals a fundamental neglect of style in both the theory and practice of rhetorical criticism. Application of stylistic matters to discourse has resulted in little which would help critics approach a …
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The Convergence of Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Criticism in Luke 3-5
… within New Testament studies, two approaches, rhetorical criticism and discourse analysis, offer distinct interpretive methods. Both approaches are predicated on a close analysis of the Greek text, each one claiming to make a significant, even essential, contribution to elucidating the writer’s …
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Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… the fictional world demands it.</p> <p>Using a rhetorical approach established by Wayne Booth in <em>The Rhetoric of Fiction</em> and <em>The Company We Keep</em>, this thesis traces the reasons for the inclusion of hope and the strategies by which hope is created and maintained. Booth's …
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THE LEGITIMATION OF COOPERATION: A RHETORICAL CRITICISM OF THE DANISH GOVERNMENT'S JUSTIFICATION OF COOPERATION, MARCH - AUGUST 1943
… mutually exclusive aims, the method of persona criticism is used to show the different ideal auditors to whom the government spoke. This thesis finds that rhetorical techniques of strategic ambiguity, minimization of harms, and the hiding the origins of the harms provided the cover the …
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Persuasion and the "mediatisation" of culture: a rhetorical criticism of South African television news reports on crime and the criminal justice system
This study undertakes a rhetorical analysis of South African television news reports on the criminal justice system. The aim is to build on the existing rhetoric culture theory by considering the persuasive communicative work performed through the mediatisation of a cultural system. The overarching …
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Rhetorical challenges: Critical studies in strategy, tactics, judgment and argument
In a series of essays, various approaches to rhetorical criticism are developed and illustrated. Each essay is built around a different textual artifact and each essay has an independent critical purpose. Despite this diversity, the essays work together to promote rhetorical criticism as a means of …
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Reading Ideology in Discourse: A History, Theory, and Case Study
… argues that in the field of modern American rhetorical criticism the concept of ideology and the practice of ideologiekritik have been repressed subjects, the focus of a persistent strategy of containment. Rhetorical criticism has repeatedly flirted with the domain of ideologiekritik, but …
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Bill Hybels and the Willow Creek Community Church: a Study in Audience Analysis and Adaptation
… Selected aspects of the Burkeian model of rhetorical criticism are applied to two of Hybels' sermons, each being presented to a different target audience. The rhetorical criticism is used as a basis for observing and evaluating comparisons and contrasts in Hybels' approach to different …
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Black Quarterback, White Masks: A Critical Analysis of the NFL Anthem Protests
… Kaepernick’s protest through the lens of racial rhetorical criticism (Flores, 2016) and Fanonian communication studies (Towns, 2020). Through the case studies of David Brooks, Lee Siegel, and Colin Fleming, and their <em>New York Times</em> opinion pieces on Kaepernick from 2016-17, this study …
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Pursuing Vernon Robbin's methodology on the Jericho Road : a socio-rhetorical analysis of Luke 10:25-37
… the nature and basis of Vernon Robbins' socio-rhetorical criticism and its applicability to Luke 10:25-37. The main purpose of the study is to highlight the usefulness of socio-rhetorical criticism to parabolic interpretation through an assessment of its implications for the analysis of Luke …
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The Elusive End of the Rainbow: A (Queer) Rhetorical Analysis of Rainbow Sash Rhetoric
… gender and sexuality. Utilizing ideological rhetorical criticism, this study analyzed the act of sash wearing itself along with multiple publicly-available articles, letters, and other rhetorical artifacts generated about sash wearing. The rhetorical artifacts examined were generated by …
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A grammar of edification : constructing our social reality via efficient quotidian management with rhetorical forms
<p>The following rhetorical criticism is an investigation of two public service announcements released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Utilizing a composite method derived from Osborn (1994), Brummett (1991) and Burke (1945), this study investigates what it means when to say how …
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Beyond Rocking the Vote: An Analysis of Rhetoric Designed to Motivate Young Voters
… in its 2006 campaign. This thesis analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the Pay Attention and Vote campaign advertisements, measures their effectiveness, and adds to the limited body of knowledge describing the attitudes and behaviors of young nonvoters. This thesis applies a mixed …
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The Role of Disability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… a thematic analysis, and an ideological rhetorical criticism. Disability was found to be used as a tool of character, plot, and atmosphere development. The data also suggested that negative assumptions of disability, often reinforcing of stereotypes, were readily apparent in the series …
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