Les prescrits d’égalité des chances : rhétoriques ou pas seulement ? by Corinne Monney

“…It questions the standards in teacher education and the possible rhetorical value of a current prescription calling for greater equality or even integration/inclusion. …”
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De la exhumación a la monumentalización : una perspectiva interdisciplinar sobre la legitimación política en España desde el año 2000 by Daniel Palacios González, Miriam Saqqa Carazo

“…The two fundamental facets that will be addressed are exhumation as a tool for legitimisation through the discourse of human rights, and monumentalisation as a tool for legitimisation through the discourse of democratic tradition. Thus, these two rhetorics, that of the recovery of a democratic memory and that of human rights, will determine the character of political legitimacy in the two selected objects of study.…”
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Walter Pater’s Anders-Streben: as Theory and as Practice by Margaux Poueymirou

“…In this article, I examine Pater’s theory of ‘Anders-streben’ in relation to the concept of synaesthesia and as a context for understanding the role, function and rhetorical style of ‘aesthetic criticism.’ For this was Pater’s art and thus, certainly not exempt from the paradigm he formulated in ‘Giorgione.’…”
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Formalism and Realism in Ruins (Mapping the Logics of Collapse) by P. Shlag

“…The Article concludes by mapping “the logics of collapse” — specifically, some critical moves that undermine the rhetorical and intellectual force of the formalism vs. realism disputes and their localized variants. …”
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Comparative analysis of interactional metadiscursive resources in academic writing by L2 and L1 English writers by Musa Al-Mudhaffari, Supyan Hussin, Imran Ho Abdullah

“…Interactional Metadicursive Resources (IMRs) are established as the most common rhetorical features that assist writers in achieving interaction with the discourse community. …”
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The Functoin of Binary Opposition in Validation of Lasting Persian Couplets by Hamid Jafari GhariyehAli

“…Binary opposition is a rhetorical device employed for meaning-making and word arrangement in languages and their versification. …”
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Skrifbeskouing en oorredingsretoriek: perspektiewe op performatiewe prediking by Johan Cilliers

“…The article closes with suggestions concerning the rhetorical strategies of persuasion found in Scripture, and how this may enable preachers to still attain preaching that is “performative”. …”
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The Migration as an Invasion and the Common European House metaphors in media discourse by Mujagić Mersina

“…The conceptual metaphors MIGRATION AS AN INVASION and the COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, which are inextricably related in the segments of the real discourse on migration, have strong rhetorical power and serve as a means of promoting antimigrant ideologies. …”
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The New Edition of the Tablature of Joannes de Lublin: Tradition and Perspectives by Kateryna Schöning

“…It is discussed within the contexts of the contemporary corpus of  tablatures in Poland and also Central  European music, developing a series of current topoi: a new ordering and reconstructing of the material taking account of codicological research and functional purposes, the local reworking of the repertoire and compilatory practice of the scribes, unknown concordances or unica, counterpoint and intabulation techniques, syntactic-rhetorical properties, and historical didactics. The edition provides literal, but good, readable transcriptions. …”
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Penser le corps-marchandise avec Alfred Sohn-Rethel by Fabrice Colomb

“…It also clarifies the way in which this process can be legitimized, starting with the rhetorical disinhibition of the relationship between money and bodies.…”
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The implications of non-authentic questions in Galatians by P. Verster

“…Questions used in Galatians include statements, empty statements, emphatic rhetorical interrogatives, ironical interrogatives and appeal questions. …”
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Migraciones y teatro: conformación de un nuevo mapa teatral cubano, más allá de la insularidad palpable by Ileana Azor

“…In the last fifty years Cuban migrants have processed their journeys of displacement by recovering their own cultural History through the generation of new Imaginaries and Institutions, creating in consequence new aesthetic scenarios articulated by a “frontal discourse” or a “rhetorical tissue” (Azor). These new aesthetic scenarios reveal the multicultural dialogue of a transcending “cubanidad”.…”
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LANGUAGE STYLE OF HUMOR ON STAND-UP COMEDY VIDEO by Merry Rullyanti, Nurdianto Nurdianto

“…Based on the data, hyperbole rhetorical language style is dominantly used in “kill the messenger”. …”
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Containment Schema, A Psychological Conclusion To The Passionate Love And Companionate Love In The Lyric Poems Of Sa î ‌ di And Hafez Shirazi. by aliakbar Bagheri Khalili, Monireh Mehrabi Kali

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Figurative Conceptualizations of Nations, Countries, and Institutions in Newspaper Articles on Migration by Mersina Mujagić

“…Applying Steen et al.’s (2010) three-dimensional model of metaphor analysis, we analyze a specific set of metaphorical linguistic expressions, which are inextricably related in the segments of the real discourse on migration, to discuss their rhetorical power and communicative function. The aim of this paper is to describe and identify cases when these are used as perspective-changing devices to influence readers’ opinion on an important issue such as migration.…”
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Investigation of paradoxical structures in Hafez's Ghazals by Maedeh Shegheft, Yadollah Shokri, Mohammad Rezaei, Rasool Rasoolipour

“…Considering that the structural study of paradoxes is separate from the study of paradoxes one by one, it can be a new approach to the relationship between linguistic-rhetorical and conceptual categories in Hafez's poetry. …”
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The Stylistics of Attār's The Conference of the Birds based on Halliday's Functional Linguistics by Khadijeh Bahrami Rahnama

“…It is also one of the literary and rhetorical tools which can best help to explain the symbolic and allegorical language as well as the complex concepts of a poet-mystic such as Farid-Al- Din Attār Nishābūrī. …”
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The Stylistic and Generic Iconography in Selected Religious Epics with an Emphasis on Allusion by Zahra Faraj Nezhad Farhang

“…In this article, supposing that the lexicons used in the rhetorical pictures of epic poetry have been chosen in accordance with the condition, position, and decorum pertaining to them, after discussing a case of generic and stylistic icon, i. e. the relationship between a word and its meaning, the allusions in the religious epics: Tazian-nameh (a shortened version of Ibn Hassan Khossfi’s Khavaran-nameh), Raji Kermani’s Hamleh-ye Heydari, Mohammad Rafi Mashhadi’s complete edition of Hamleh-ye Heydari, and Khaje Rabi’s Ali-nameh have been researched and analyzed. …”
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Thinking, Totalitarianism, and Tribunals: The Notion of Responsibility in Repressive Regimes by Andreea Norica Bălan

“…Moreover, language, too, loses its hermeneutical ability to conjure up other possible, alternative, imaginative scenarios, as the regime clamps down on the use of words and phrases, creating a rhetorically univocal echo chamber from which it becomes increasingly more difficult to escape. …”
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The power of metaphor in thesis writing process by Hanić Jasmina, Pavlović Tanja, Jašić Alma Jahić

“…Their metaphor use is non-elicited and this rhetorical device is spontaneously used showing that thesis writers conceptualize their research and all it entails in metaphorical terms to a significant extent. …”
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