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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"rhetorical study"”.
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Percy Foreman : a rhetorical study.
This rhetorical study of the public speaking techniques of Percy Eugene Foreman, Houston attorney, explores factors of background and training contributing to Foreman's ability as a speaker, investigates natural and acquired methods of communication pertinent to his success, and analyzes three …
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A rhetorical study of the open democracy bill : a Perelmanian approach
Includes bibliography.
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Deliberation, Dissent, and Advocacy: A Rhetorical Study of Teachers' Lived Experiences with Education Reform
… the strategies through which teachers gain rhetorical agency within the discursive space of reform. To do so, I apply an analytical frame of public sphere theory and employ a mixed-methods approach that combines archival methods and fieldwork (e.g. participant observation and interviews). …
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Patriots Underground, Online: a Rhetorical Study of the Militia Movement's Use of the American Revolution
… were inspired by militia literature. This study examines the rhetoric of the militia movement, particularly its use of the political myth of the American Revolution. A study of militia movement web pages reveals that militia rhetors reinterpret the myth of the American Revolution in two …
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Archibald Macleish, Spokesman for Democracy: A Rhetorical Study of His Advocacy of the American Dream
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The Emotion of Joy and the Rhetoric of Reversal in Luke-Acts: A Socio-Rhetorical Study
… attention in New Testament scholarship. This study seeks to examine the joy theme from a socio-rhetorical vantage point. In order to facilitate a careful study of the persuasive use of the emotion of joy and its social impact, the distinct but interrelated textures of the Lukan tapestry are …
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A Rhetorical Study of the Reaction of the Protestant Pulpit in the North to Lincoln's Assassination
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Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt: A rhetorical study of the transformation of an epidemic through social movement
This study looks at the Names Project: AIDS Memorial Quilt as a rhetorical artifact and centerpiece of the current AIDS movement. The methodology for this study is an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic design, utilizing interviews with four Quilt volunteers and staffers, including my observations …
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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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ALT-RIGHT OF THE_DONALD AND AUTHORITARIAN COMMUNISTS ON REDDIT: INTERNET MEMES TO BUILD COMMUNITY
… infuses Lacanian psychoanalysis further into the rhetorical study by exploring authoritarian discourses on Reddit. I analyze the alt-right community that found a home on the subreddit r/The_Donald and chart their discourse as it shaped from the quarantine to the establishment of an independent …
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Rhetorical analysis of Spiro T. Agnew.
This thesis is a rhetorical study of Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President of the United States. His speaking has revived speechmaking and placed him into the national limelight of public opinion and made him one of the most controversial Vice Presidents of all time. Chapter One is a specialized …
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Telling the Soviet redemption story: Ronald Reagan’s changing Soviet rhetoric
… Specifically, I argue that through the rhetorical analysis of eight of Reagan’s speeches, four from his first term and four from his second, we see how the President told a story of Soviet redemption. The first chapter of this extended rhetorical analysis is a justification of my claim, …
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Jacqueline Kennedy and the politics of popularity
… She seems to be an object ripe for rhetorical study; yet, for many communication scholars, Kennedy’s cultural iconicity diminishes her legacy as First Lady, and she remains an exemplar of political passivity. Her influence on the American public’s cultural and political imagination, …
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An analysis of the Aristotelian rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos in selected musical plays of Rodgers and Hammerstein
… of musical theatre. This dissertation is a rhetorical analysis of the scripts and scores of three of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals, Oklahoma!, Carousel and South Pacific. These texts are particularly well suited to this rhetorical study because of the recognized social messages that …
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"A Self-Observing World of Observers": The American Serial Killer in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Contemporary True Crime Narratives
… of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. My study is organized into four sections which take up the language of criminal classification in order to more fully determine how Lester functions. “Who Is(n’t) Lester Ballard?” troubles the existing scholarship which sees fictional Lester as a …
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RHETORICS OF CONSUMPTION: IDENTITY, CONFRONTATION, AND CORPORATIZATION IN THE AMERICAN VEGETARIAN MOVEMENT
… movement theory, this dissertation undertakes a rhetorical study of the ethical vegetarian movement, focusing not only on collective action but also on the role of personal interaction in identity formation, participant recruitment, and participant mobilization. A major finding of this study is …
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