Connectivism, Chaos and Chaoids by Peter Shukie

“…The impact of this growing sense of chaos on education seems significant if uncertain, generating transformative rhetoric if often ambiguous around what has been transformed. …”
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Investigating the Role of Pragmatics in Cross-Cultural Communication: A Comparative Analysis of Speech Acts in Different Cultures by Rasha Hussan

“…The study draws on speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and Winston Churchill to illustrate different communication styles shaped by cultural contexts, with King's emotionally charged rhetoric reflecting American values and Churchill's firm tone embodying British pragmatism. …”
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Un climat de compétition : le changement climatique comme économie politique dans la fiction spéculative, 1889-1915 by Steve Asselin

“…This paper demonstrates how the first major locus of climate-change fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries already integrates climate into an economic rhetoric that views climate policy as a zero-sum competition between rival nations. …”
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One year of Donald Tusk’s government: what has changed in Poland? by Oleg Yu. Mikhalev

“…The most noticeable changes were only the change in the rhetoric of the mass media, which was rapidly taken out of the control of the Law and Justice party, and the making of numerous allegations against the losing party and its individual members. …”
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Faux et usage de faux : la forme de l’archive dans « The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee », de J. M. Coetzee by Odile Gannier

“…« The only thing that someone exceptionally suspicious could have against this relation and its reliability is that Mr Kolben might have embellished the Hottentots answers, due to his vivid imagination, and used some flowers of rhetoric that many people consider as essential in order to make a narrative interesting, especially when it deals with so rude tribes. » In 1741, the translator’s preface of Description of the Cape of Good Hope by Kolben already undermines a yet first-hand testimony. …”
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Literary seduction: Minds, bodies and non-textual phenomena by Michael BURKE

“…Deliberations into what makes a literary text persuasive, what seduces readers to continue reading once the act of reading started, is often a combination of (a) what is written (the themes), (b) the order and manner in which the events of the story are presented (the narrative structure and how the text is filtered, and (c) how a story is written (the style and rhetoric of the text). But arguably these factors alone cannot seduce a reader into continuing to read if a number of mind/body, non-textual phenomena are not in alignment. …”
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Review of Book “History of Abbasi Literature, Attitude and Art by Ezz al-Din Ismail by abu al-hasan amin moghadecci, moosa bayat, abdo al- vahid navidi

“…The rules of grammar and Rhetoric have been fully observed. Proportionality between the amount of information and details of the book as a whole has not been met, but this has been considered in the context of the chapter. …”
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Les appels de Margaret Fell pour convertir les Juifs : de l’émancipation à la soumission chez la première femme Quaker by Frédéric Herrmann

“…Yet, the full force of Fell’s rhetoric of conversion, steeped in the spiritualistic Quaker denunciation of Jewish legalism tends to mitigate this picture. …”
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»Ogni sorte de gradi, & di armonia«. Aspekte des Paradoxen in Jacobus Gallus’ Motette Mirabile mysterium by Markus Roth

“…The interpretative commentary deals with some parallel cases in cinquecento madrigals and concepts of paradoxical rhetoric and mannerism.…”
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Having Your Cake: Caricaturing the Business Organization in 20th-century and Contemporary American Art and Poetry by David Reckford

“…We focus here on the idea of business as a trope and as a reality that can be placed in a rhetorical position in art (mostly visual art and poetry) in the 20th century. …”
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Developing Ideological Intelligence in Schools: Appreciation and Practice of Pancasila Values through Extracurricular Activities by Hariyanti Hariyanti, Gigieh Cahya Permady, Irma Irayanto, Saepudin Kartasasmita, Anif Istianah

“…The revitalization of PPKn as ideological education can be realized in extracurricular activities under the coordination of PPKn teachers, with the advantages of: 1) It provides an ideological learning experience that is fun and easy to digest for students. 2) I am avoiding elements of indoctrination in learning. 3) The entire school community is involved in an open place because ideological intelligence cannot be developed through rhetoric and symbols.…”
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Layers of Invisibility in Portuguese State Furniture Design, 1940-1974 by João Paulo Martins, Sofia Diniz

“…In this brief visual essay, snapshots of a long-term research project recently concluded at the School of Architecture, University of Lisbon prompt us to identify designers and commissioning agencies, locate them within their context(s) of production and discuss significant episodes where diverse aesthetical and ideological stances are followed, each with its own rhetoric: the rift between a generally conservative tutelage and some officials’ drive to keep up with international developments, for example, can be read in these inconspicuous objects and practices of the everyday. …”
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Charles, the Prince of Wales at the Court of Philip IV of Spain: the «Incognito» Trip and the Problem of Exchanging Gifts by P. Yu. Kosheleva

“…Nevertheless, this ritual has not lost its symbolism and significance in the rhetoric of negotiations. Gifts were used as a means of communication, an indicator of the influence of states and the way of their self-presentation.…”
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The aesthetics of parallelism Rhythm in the Al-Ashbah Sermon by Ali Ghahramani, Solmsz Porshoor

“…This research intends to study parallelism Rhythm and its relation with religious meanings and content and its requirements to study its frequency in this sermon with a descriptive-analytical approach to illustrate the unique rhetoric of Nahj al-balagha. This article also tries to take a modest step towards understanding the beauty of the structure and content of this valuable book. …”
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Involvement in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Work: Conceptions of Service Users by Minna Laitila, Merja Nikkonen, Anna-Maija Pietilä

“…In practice, however, there are indicators of SUI remaining rhetoric rather than reality. The purpose of this study was to analyse and describe service users' conceptions of SUI in mental health and substance abuse work. …”
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Policy Considerations on the Interplay Between State Aid Control and Competition Law by Maria João Melícias

“…It signals, in any event, the virtues of this new found rhetoric: the fact that it helps to engage the common citizen on the importance of competition. …”
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A Critical Analysis of the Book Ma’āni al-Abniah fi al-Arabiah (Meanings of Structures in Arabic) by Hassan Sarbaz, Azad Mounesi

“…He argues that any change in a structure or conjugate leads to a change in its meaning, and consideration of the diversity of these meanings increases the importance of Arabic and the rhetoric contained in the Holy Quran. In this book, Sāmarrā’i has adopted a semantic approach to investigate the issues concerning nouns and verbs, infinitives, adverbs of time and place, present participles, past participles, constant adjectives, instruments, different types of plural, and relative nouns. …”
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L’humanitaire islamique et les ONG musulmanes en France : quels registres de mobilisation ? by Lucas Faure

“…By contrast with the republican rhetoric that stigmatizes faith-based differences, the French State entrusts Muslim associations with caring for Muslim beneficiaries. …”
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A Narrative analysis of semantic marking (literary balance) in the stories of Leilā Sabūhī by Mohammad Paknahad

“…Finally, the author’s narrative technique involves present and creative imagination and   focalizations through rhetorical marking (simile and allegory).…”
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Embodied aesthetics and populist appeal of communist portraits in contemporary Kerala by Anagha Anil

“…It is further characterized by a strong ‘us vs. them’ rhetoric in which the ‘them’ is a powerful other, variously identified as CIA (Central Intelligence Agency of the US), or the media syndicate, or the government of the Indian Union, etc. …”
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