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The Rhetoric of Persecution: Mormon Crisis Rhetoric from 1838-1871
… study is an attempt to (1) minimize the lack of rhetorical scholarship in Mormon studies, and (2) add to the historical study of rhetoric in nineteenth-century America. Since the Mormon Church's establishment in 1830, sermons have been a vital part of the Church's development into a worldwide …
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Graffiti and Rhetoric
… artist of study, this thesis adapts present rhetorical research to understand the importance of location, timing, and credibility for the visual rhetor. Visual Rhetoric is a rapidly growing segment of the communication discipline. Graffiti as a method of communication offers an interesting …
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The rhetoric of restoration: Alexander Campbell and the rhetoric of affect
… operationalized an ""affective"" philosophy of rhetoric which he acquired from the Scottish universities of the late eighteenth century. A significant figure in nineteenth century American religion, Campbell (1788-1866) thus represents a key link between this particular notion of rhetoric and …
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Building a Chicana rhetoric for rhetoric and composition : methodology, practice, and performance
… D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2010
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Nike, feminism and rhetoric
… Considered in light of contemporary theories of rhetoric and feminism, it is demonstrated that the ads are invested with meaning and importance because they answer concerns about identity, representation, self-definition, agency and a sense of meaninglessness that preoccupy the modern citizen. …
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The Rhetoric of Violence
… use of depictions of violence by examining its rhetorical presentation. Although the media gives us a mixed understanding of the way that experiencing violence secondarily (that is, through all types of media) affects us, scholarship in this area has proved clear connections between …
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A Rhetoric of mysticism
… the gap-provoking potential of several major rhetorical strategies. Three studies were designed to explore whether and at what frequency written testimonials of mystical experience exploit a selection of 31 of these gap-provoking strategies: the first study exposed their high frequency in …
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The Rhetoric of Veblen
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The Rhetoric of Criticism
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Bentham's Philosophy of Rhetoric
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The Rhetoric* of Writing Assessment
The Rhetoric* of Writing Assessment uses strategic variations of rhetorical theory to reimagine writing assessment's complicated disciplinary past and rethink its foundational concepts through its multifaceted rhetorical situatedness. Although scholars such as Bob Broad, Brian Huot, Patricia Lynne, …
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Inexorable Burden: Rhetoric and Togetherness
… analysis to reassess longstanding notions in rhetorical theory and moral philosophy (via classical rhetoric and technical communication). In particular, I use diachronic analyses of the terms telos, symbouleutikon, and sympheron (from Aristotle to present) as a theoretical springboard to …
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The rhetoric of African fiction
… aesthetic aspects and examines critically the rhetoric of West African fiction from both the oral and written traditions.</p><p>After a critical survey of the contemporary approaches to African literature, stressing the merits and limitations of the various methods, this study analyzes several …
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Articulating a decolonial materialist rhetoric.
… is preoccupied with challenging the way current rhetoricians approach criticism of Native discourse, that which is produced within and by Native communities. Beginning with Ronald Greene's "A Materialist Rhetoric," this thesis injects Native intellectual scholarship into the field of rhetoric, …
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