A good generic structure provides the audience with logical cues so that they can easily follow the flow of ideas presented in the text. This study aims to analyse the generic structure of the mostly viewed explanation genre in TED Talk, a public speaking program which has been widely known ...
(literary representations of) pre-modern oral controversies, I shall argue that, in the context of medieval rhetorical practice, the dialectic model of ritual altercation served as a model for the scholastic disputation, both as regards its formal structure and its underlying pragma-semiotic design....
Interesting-ly,the process of healing, in his case, involves not onlythe typicaltherapeuticletter,defined by‘writing back’to thosewho have causedthe pain, but also in-cludes letters of apology,thank-you-letters,advisory letters,and argumentativeletters about social,political and philosophical ...