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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"rhetorical tool"”.
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Rhapsody in Green - A Happening: An Examination of the Happening as a Rhetorical Tool
… contribute to the Happening's current usage as a rhetorical tool. I created a traditional Happening containing a message of environmental consumption and destruction, and surveyed audience members regarding their interpretation and experience. The survey responses were coded using a top-down …
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A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of the Hillbilly Stereotype
… America and represent a particularly dangerous rhetorical tool that can be mobilized to discount the concerns of rural people.
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Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy
… it outside erotic literature, and functions as a rhetorical tool in the process of seduction. ,The attitude of the elegiac persona to luxury sheds light on the fictional lover, and demonstrates how the elegists accommodate in their poetry traditional and contemporary views of a real phenomenon.
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Building a World of warcraft: cyber-colonialism through othering strategies
This thesis provides a rhetorical analysis of the popular video game World of Warcraft (WoW) and related material. The subscriber base of this game makes it a particularly prominent example of discourse with potentially great influence. Where previous studies have focused less on WoW's narrative in …
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The Emotion of Joy and the Rhetoric of Reversal in Luke-Acts: A Socio-Rhetorical 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 examined separately. From the wide vantage point of …
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Code-Switching and Language Ideology in a Northern Dene Community
… merely a symptom of language loss, but rather a rhetorical tool by which speakers achieve a particular depth of meaning in conversation. Furthermore, it is suggested that in a community where members are acutely aware of the tension between maintaining their heritage language and participating in …
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Gender and exemplarity in Valerius Maximus
… to their readers, and the role that gender, as a rhetorical tool, plays in this process. The exemplum is a formal rhetorical device employed in speeches and treatises and as such belongs to the elite and masculine world of oratory. Yet it is also a tool of moral education, and its truncated …