I use a rhetorical and hermeneutic analysis to create new texts in the senses developed by BURKE and BILLIG. I conclude with a brief reflection on how the different ways that people relate to alcohol are found in their lifeworld (HABERMAS). Changes in this relationship seem to happen through...
A Case for Rhetorical Method: Criticism, Theory, and the Exchange of Jean Baudrillard In sum, my analysis of these two texts, one classical and one controversial, considers the ability of each text and its surrounding paratexts to challenge the meaning-making system and break with convention. ...
Analyzes two ancient Egyptian technical texts, the Edwin Smith Surgery Manual and the Ebers Manual, to identify complex rhetorical dynamics that present or encourage substantive reformulation of medical practice and thinking within a strongly conservative, authoritarian culture. Shows how the ancient Egyptia...
This paper aims to investigate the well-established notion of contrastive rhetoric which highlights a connection between culture and writing conventions across languages within the context of a factual text type, the least expected to reflect a cultural influence.MM Almehmadi...
To answer this, we used rhetorical discourse analysis to examine a one-year sample of texts from the Facebook posts of three large U.S. national parks. Rhetorical discourses are persuasive; their contents, forms and styles of organization can be studied to understand how social and cultural ...
doi:10.1016/0167-9236(87)90128-XELSEVIERDecision Support SystemsMann, W. and Thompson, S., 1987, “Rhetorical structure theory: A framework for the analysis of texts,” Technical Report RS-87-185, Information Science Institute, Marina del Rey, CA....
While research in rhetorical analysis has focused predominantly on academic writing, little is known of the moves employed in relatively new modes of computer-mediated communication. This paper, therefore, examines the rhetorical structure of text messages posted by listeners, most of whom are universit...
A Model of Rhetorical Structure Analysis of Japanese Texts and Its Application to Intelligent Text Processing: A Case for a Smart Help Systemdoi:10.1007/978-3-540-28633-2_124The purpose of this paper is to propose an algorithm of rhetorical structure analysis of Japanese instructional texts with...
聽 Rhetoric, which focuses on persuasion and ways of knowing, offers a strong, qualitative methodological approach for scholars engaged in virtual worlds research. 聽 A background in the history of rhetorical studies is complemented by analysis of how rhetoric has been applied to virtual worlds and...
K. (2014). Convincing peers of the value of one's research: a genre analysis of rhetorical promotion in academic texts. English for Specific Purposes, 34, 1e13.Martin, P. & Leon, I. K. (2014). Convincing peers of the value of one's research: A genre analysis of rhetorical pro...