THE FOLK BELIEFS IN THE TALE OF KIEU AND THE FUNERAL ORATION TO THE SOULS BY NGUYEN DU by Võ Thị Thùy Dung

“…“The Tale of Kieu” and “The Funeral Oration to the Souls” are two works of great value and significance in the writing career of the great poet, Nguyen Du. …”
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The Good Friday oration ad intra ecclesiam in the context of the post-conciliar liturgical reforms by Dawid Mielnik

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Arts of eristic, of dialectic and of sophistry as premises of legal discourse development by K. H. Rekoch

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Expressões retóricas do amor no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende by Geraldo Augusto Fernandes

“…The rhyme and the stanza are, then, parts of the ornament along with the figures and tropes, formerly used in oratorical eloquence. The medieval humanists, in their cult of ancient civilization, transpose to the act of making poetry the same elements and concerns characteristic of past orators. …”
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Pitt on a Pedestal: Sculpture and Slavery in Late-Eighteenth-Century Charleston by Wendy Bellion

“…Representing the English statesman William Pitt the Elder in the mode of a classical orator, the marble statue stood on a pedestal at the intersection of Meeting and Broad Streets, in Charleston’s historic Civic Square. …”
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Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: Metaphor and Values as Captivating Strategies to Celebrate a Presidency by Mª Pilar Guitart Escudero

“…Using this speech I will demonstrate how metaphor is a powerful strategy since first, it facilitates the understanding of abstract concepts in a short time span; second, it conveys positive images that benefit the orator; and, finally, because the message conveyed is doubly powerful as it works through both auditory and visual channels.   …”
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Vers une théorisation du discours séducteur by Sandrine SORLIN

“…In its most extreme version, the aim of seductive discourse is to lead the reader/listener astray, ‘away from her self’, towards the vision or opinion held by the writer/orator. The article displays to what extent the art of seduction can be said to retain part of the violence that it was meant to replace. …”
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“Having to Think in Inverted Commas”: Feminine Discourse and Foreign Words in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book (1897) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…Is female genius meant to preserve rather than create? Once she becomes an orator, her speeches make people raise their fists and cause inverted commas to fall.…”
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Myth-making and History: The Visual Transformation of Boadicea in Eighteenth-Century History Books by Isabelle Baudino

“…Moreover, Boadicea’s portrayal as an eloquent orator aligned with the classicizing of her appearance, contributing to her symbolic status as defender of British liberty. …”
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LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SPEECH by Vidmanė Žoštautaitė, Dinalda Simuntienė

“…Carefully chosen type of speech (demonstrative, informative, ceremonial or persuasive) alongside with particular linguistic devices (lexical and stylistic) allow any influential orator to create a notable impact on the target audience and manipulate the mind-set of the masses. …”
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Revision of the millipede family Dalodesmidae in Madagascar, with descriptions of two new Malagasy species of Dalodesmus Cook, 1896 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) by Thomas Wesener, Nesrine Akkari, Sergei I. Golovatch

“…Dalodesmus currently contains six species, including two new, all supplied either with brief descriptive notes and available iconography or extensive descriptions and new illustrations, as follows: D. hamatus (Brandt, 1841), from an unspecified locality in Madagascar, now redescribed from a male specimen from Makira, northeastern Madagascar; D. odontopezus (Attems, 1898), from Nosy Be Isle; D. orator Hoffman, 1974, from Ambohimitombo, central Madagascar; D. tectus Cook, 1896 (= D. hova (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1897), syn. nov.), originally described from an unspecified locality in central Madagascar, with a male type and additional males identified as D. hova recorded from the Andasibe National Park (= Périnet) in east-central Madagascar. …”
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Development of Stylistics and Rhetoric in Lithuania by Irena Smetonienė, Marius Smetona

“…Rhetoric, as one of the most important liberal arts, was still taught in Lithuania in the 16th and 18th centuries, together with dialectics and logic, the most famous works being: “Oratoriaus praktika, arba retorikos meno taisyklės” [The Practice of the Orator, or the Rules of the Art of Rhetoric] by Žygimantas Liauksminas, “Poetika” [ Poetics] by Motiejus Kazimieras Sarbievijus, “Apie taisytinas iškalbos ydas. …”
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Structuri argumentative în discursul juridic grecesc în epoca atică by Lavinia Ionela Savu

“…Our conclusion is that everything we see today in both theory and practice of modern law discourse (as well as in other genres), and everything that has been discovered in modern theories of rhetoric owe their very existence to this Greek model promoted by the orators selected in the Canon of Alexandria. This observation can be validated by looking at both the techniques used in their argumentation and the way the spoken word was being manipulated in the ancient texts that we have analyzed.…”
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À propos des espaces d’enseignement et des salles de conférence dans le monde romain by Michèle Villetard

“…Literary or epigraphic sources as well as the last fifty years of archaeological works point out that medium and higher-level education could be performed in various types of buildings: small rooms where a few pupils learned or prestigious buildings where orators and sophists recited for hundreds or thousands of auditors. …”
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„Daher kommt es, dass in Basel jedermann französisch spricht“. Jugendliche Basler_innen im Welschland (18. und frühes 19. Jahrhundert) by Elise Voerkel

“…In this paper, general aspects of these journeys are described, using statements of the time and in particular funeral orations from Basel (1760-1840). Subsequently, the question of female education in private boarding schools is analyzed by using families’ correspondence.…”
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Biblical spirituality: an "other" reading (allègoria) by Kees Waaijman

“…The transition from an awareness of differences in respect of contents to dialogical non-indifference is crucial for Biblical Spirituality, because it marks the progression from a “meditative” way of reading, which is directed towards content (literary history), to an “orative” or prayerful way of reading, which is concerned with the God-human process of transformation. …”
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Prawo karne jako narzędzie przeciwko wulgaryzacji języka by Marek Derlatka

“…Everyone should be anxious to follow the maxim of one of the greatest Roman orators - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus: speaking well is living well, being a good person.…”
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Ian Worthington by Borja Antela-Bernárdez

“…Within his academic production, very diverse in themes, topics and interests, different approaches stand out on Macedonia, Philip and Alexander, side by side with his interest also on the voice of Demosthenes (side by side in Worthington’s work with other orators) or the history of Athens. Born in 1958, this Englishman studied Classics in Hull and Durham. …”
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The Athenian Democracy by Chiara Lasagni

“…The article challenges the mythologisation of iconic symbols such as Pericles’ Funeral Oration and the kleroterion, emphasising the importance of contextualising these within their true historical settings. …”
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Software defined airborne tactical network for aeronautic swarm by Shang-hong ZHAO, Ke-fan CHEN, Na LYU, Xiang WANG, Jing ZHAO

“…Aeronautic swarm was a new kind of aeronautic operationa1 system inspired by bio1ogica1 swarm behaviors.Whi1e 1eading to a new usage way of future aeronautic operationa1 resources，aeronautic swarm wou1d bring new cha11enges to the airborne tactica1 network（ATN），which was as a bond between the swarm members.Based on the operationa1 demand of aeronautic swarm，the airborne tactica1 network of aeronautic swarm（ATNAS）was introduced，The basic capabi1ity requirements of ATNAS were ana1yzed，and the advantages of app1ying the SDN network design idea to the construction of ATNAS were a1so summarized.Then on the bases above，software defined airborne tactica1 networking for aeronautic swarm（SDATN-AS）was proposed.The basic architecture of SDATN-AS was described，and a series of future research directions and cha11enges re1ating to SDATN-AS were a1so summarized.A new exp1oration of the ATN's morpho1ogy was made which supported the efficient information interaction of aeronautic swarm members，and reference and guidance were offered for deciding the deve1opment orientations of ATN in the future.…”
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