Les feux de Pentecôte au royaume du Siècle. L’économie des charismes dans le pentecôtisme suédois by Emir Mahieddin

“…It thus appears that the « return of religion » does not only rely on the rhetoric of conflict against the ideology of secularism but attempts to settle a negotiated coexistence with its hosting environment however free of religious influence that it might be.…”
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Nietzsche o Kantovi: Královecké číňanství? by Sikora, Ondřej

“…To what extent is Nietzsche’s critique of Kant empty rhetoric, and to what extent is it a substantive argument to be taken seriously? …”

Cartão-postal fotográfico e balnearização das cidades litorâneas : o caso de Royan (1895-1920) by Benjamin Caillaud

“…Mass-distributed in the postcard format, Braun’s shots were also used by the national publishing houses for illustrated books. Using a visual rhetoric that is specific to the postcard, Fernand Braun “invents” the landscape of Royan’s shores and spreads a modern aesthetic of the Atlantic coastline.…”
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John Bull’s Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland : Rhétorique graphique et propagande politique dans la controverse fiscale 1903-1910 by Philippe Vervaecke

“…It then delineates the rhetoric displayed by protectionist and free-trade pictorial propaganda and the consistency of their respective viewpoints of British society and of the international context. …”
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Coming to Accounts: Fraud and Muckraking in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition by Mark David Kaufman

“…This article traces the rhetoric of accounting in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century racial discourse, from its initial use by slave traders, to its reinscription (or re-metaphorization) as “fraud” by abolitionists, and finally to its turn-of-the-century valence in exposing the linguistic double-dealing and metonymic substitution that informed—and continues to inform—racist ideology.With its emphasis on bodysnatching, doubling, and displacement of “figures,” Charles W. …”
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La religion dans la publicité : analyse des cas sur la bière à Kinshasa by Jéthro Ekoka Bokelo, Andrea Catellani

“…These analyses showed that Christian religious allusions peppered the texts of the advertisements, with references to the rhetoric of revivalist churches of the Congo and with marks of the Catholic religion, both of which we consider as euphemistic or “de-dramatizing” discourses that favour beers. …”
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“Insular hobbits”? Englishness, Euroscepticism and the Brexit vote in Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018) by Guillaume Clément

“…Such depictions appear closer to the outdated mythical tropes of “Deep England” than to the complexities of contemporary Britishness and might have helped fuel Eurosceptic rhetoric and influenced conservative English voters’ beliefs in the run-up to the 2016 EU membership referendum.…”
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Dandiacal Conversation in Oscar Wilde’s Comedies of Manners: Conventions, Conversions and Reconfigurations of Phallogocentrism by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…Their strong reliance on rhetoric ensures their supremacy in polite conversation, even if their intellectual and cultural edge does a lot to secure their domination. …”
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Pédaler pour de bonnes causes by Maïa Bouatouch Legrand

“…It should be read in the continuity of previous works exploring sexual harassment in Egypt as a public issue, through an original case of appropriation of its rhetoric to advocate for the cause of female cycling. …”
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Reaccionarios, traidores y otras malas hierbas políticas.La representación visual del antirrepublicanismo en El Motín (1881-1895) by Lara Campos Pérez

“…To this end, it analyses a selection of the illustrations published in this newspaper about this theme, regarding the characters the narrative sequence present in them, as well as the visual rhetoric resources used by the successive cartoonists who produced them. …”
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La polarisation comme stratégie politique : lorsque pragmatisme et idéologie vont de pair by Léa Chevrollier

“…Against the strategy of moderation touted by the centrist wing of the Democratic Party, the left intends to reassert a clear Democratic identity, one that would be firmly rooted in a populist, class-war rhetoric.…”
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NIEKO NĖRA, ARBA BŪTIES PROBLEMA SOFISTŲ MĄSTYME by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…Keywords: early Greek philosophy, Sophists, being, knowledge, man-measure, rhetoric. …”
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NIEKO NĖRA, ARBA BŪTIES PROBLEMA SOFISTŲ MĄSTYME by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…Keywords: early Greek philosophy, Sophists, being, knowledge, man-measure, rhetoric. …”
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Une esthétique postmoderne : l’esprit kitsch dans The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) by Pierre Beylot

“…Characteristic of a kitsch rhetoric, this example also makes it possible to question the criteria of judgment of taste employed by today’s spectators and to propose a typology of reception of more general scope.…”
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Pourquoi chanter les ragots du passé ? Itinéraire historique d’un chant rituel trumai (Mato Grosso, Brésil) by Emmanuel de Vienne

“…As such, it is a key element in the nostalgic rhetoric upon which group identity is built in contrast with the other groups forming the Upper Xingu system. …”
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Les « dissidences non dissidentes » du Front Polisario dans les camps de réfugiés et la diaspora sahraouis by Carmen Gómez Martín, Cédric Omet

“…Twenty years of diplomatic failures have led to the emergence of groups who have re-appropriated the rhetoric of a call to arms and the challenge to existing power structures. …”
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Les femmes du NPD au Römer : Quand l’extrême droite fait son entrée au parlement de Francfort (1989-1993) by Valérie Dubslaff

“…This article sheds light on how these women used their nonconformity – whether through the defense of reactionary positions, outrageous rhetoric or deliberately inappropriate behaviour – to assert themselves as women, a fortiori as far-right women, in a parliamentary institution that tried to keep them on the margins by any means.…”
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Du cadre d’action collective au programme partisan  : ancrages patronaux des islamismes en Turquie et en Tunisie by Dilek Yankaya

“…The analysis focuses on Ennahdha in Tunisia and the Justice and Development Party in Turkey, whose programs are seen to bring no model of alternative development and to make the Islamic reference an element of rhetoric. Instead of evaluating the failure or success of these movements by the influence of a religious orthodoxy, the text focuses on the framing work carried out by partisan groups in interaction with their social properties and according to specific temporalities and scales of action. …”
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L’école est finie ! L’ère trans-moderne du savoir-relation et la fin de la transmission ? by Béatrice Mabilon Bonfils

“…Knowledge becomes relationship. Yet, beyond the rhetoric, the school form remains traditional, transmissive, vertical. …”
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Gambling and Consumption by Riitta Matilainen

“…The former is viewed as ‘a legitimate activity’, because it satisfies what is necessary, whereas catering to ‘non-essential’ or ‘superficial’ desires is seen to be driven by ‘ethically dubious motives’. The rhetoric of need has therefore dominated the study of consumption as well as the views of ordinary people. …”
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