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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Rhetorical purposes"”.
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Speech acts and their rhetorical purposes in the Namibian parliamentary discourse, 2015-2016
… downgrade and irritate others to win debates. Rhetorical devices such as, code-switching, address and titles, parallelism, sarcasm euphemism, antithesis, buzzwords and exordium were employed by MPs in attempt to define situations, give recognition, produce good sounding words, create humour, …
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The Orpheus Figure: The Voice in Writing, Music and Media
… and texts using the voice for authoritative or rhetorical purposes. Grounded in the prefiguration of opera’s earlier displacement of the singing voice, the understanding of mass media and digital media then developed is critical of theories of immersion in media. The analyses of the series of …
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"Hybrid Historiography in Colonial Mexico: Genre, Event and Time in the ""Cuauhtitlan Annals"" and the ""Historia De La Nacion Chichimeca"
… European, but, often depending on the writers' rhetorical purposes and audience, belonging to both traditions. While the Cuauhtitlan Annals responds to the Spanish colonial order by bringing the pre-Hispanic past into the colonial present and by bearing witness to the impact of the conquest, the …
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The Mission Statement of Jesus: Mark 1:15, Mark's Apocalyptically Charged Decision Motif
… - it will be argued - crafted the statement as a rhetorical device to press his audience for a personal decision to accept Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God and as a call for them to be baptized. It will be argued that the mission statement was fully crafted by Mark rather than originating with …
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Turning the light on : the negotiation and representation of condom use
… talk about sex. It takes a feminist, discursive rhetorical approach, combining this with an exploration of how particular discourses about condom use can be understood to be ideological. The thesis draws on data from surveys, interviews and a media case study of <i>The Jeremy Kyle Show</i>: …
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Multimodal Composition and the Rhetoric of Comics: A Study of Comics Teams in Collaboration
… in diverse combinations and for a variety of rhetorical purposes. For this study, I have chosen to focus on comics texts that differ in terms of subject matter, genre, and collaborative makeup in order to examine multimodal collaborations and create distinct cases. Through three cases of …
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Knowing more than they can tell: An assessment of genre awareness among students in writing intensive zoology and civil engineering courses
… Devitt. Students showed limited awareness of the rhetorical purposes of the advanced lab report and even less awareness of the values and beliefs embedded in its discourse conventions. Disciplinary identification and mentoring experiences were found to be factors that might contribute to the …
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Assessing Citation Practices in First-Year Writing: A Computational-Rhetorical Approach
… 2014), without fully examining their underlying rhetorical functions or the influence of classroom genres on citation practices. Smaller-scale studies have yielded meaningful insights into the rhetorical dimensions of citation (Haller, 2010), but these have been challenging to scale up, and …
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Rewriting Torah in the Fourth Gospel: with particular reference to scriptural interpretation in the Prologue
… therefore attends to the exegetical methods and rhetorical impact of the v interpretation of the Jewish scriptures that are identifiable in the Gospel of John, particularly in its opening Prologue. Like many Rewritten Scripture texts, the literary devices of expansion, omission, and embellishment …
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The role of translation in shaping media and political discourses in times of conflict : the Syrian "Spring" in context
… syntactically and lexically to serve pre-planned rhetorical purposes and pursue unacknowledged agendas in response to their own in-built belief system (ideology), readers' expectations and their world thoughts, or under the pressure of their commissioner. The study reveals (and emphasises) that …