New Approach to the Yakut Language Dictionary: Preface as Paratext by Elena Stepanovna Rufova

“…By analyzing Pekarsky’s rhetorical strategies, such as his self-presentation and engagement with the reader, the study reveals how the preface communicates the significance of the dictionary’s creation. …”
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Poemat Macieja Stryjkowskiego Przesławnego wjazdu do Krakowa i pamięci godnej koronacyjej Henryka Walezyjusa […] opisanie jako relacja poetycka uroczystości. Wartości źródłowe i ar... by Maria Wichowa

“…The poet deliberately chose the descriptive form, consistently applying it in coexistence with narration, discreetly employing numerous rhetorical devices, always with deliberate selection. …”
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Mercy Otis Warren, the American Revolution and the Classical Imagination by Eran Shalev

“…In her works Warren put to use a set of powerful and unique rhetorical modes for incorporating and merging America and the classical world. …”
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Analyzing accusation patterns between Hamas and Israel during the Al-Aqsa flood operation by Alaeddin A. Banikalef, Nisreen N. Al-Khawaldeh

“…This study introduced a rigorously defined framework for categorizing accusations in conflict discourse, contributing to both rhetorical theory and conflict communication strategies. …”
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Heroines of Health: Examining the Other Side of the “Splendid Little War” by Ingrid Gessner

“…Drawing on historical documents and examples from material commemorative culture this article examines the textual, cultural, and rhetorical representation of the experiences of Act­ing Assistant Surgeon Anita Newcomb McGee and Army contract nurse Clara Louise Maass, who volunteered to participate in yellow fever experiments and died of the disease. …”
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An Analytical Study of the Methodological Implications of the Concept of “Social Current” by Ali Ebrahim Pour

“…Its purpose is to introduce "Studies of Currents" as a science, not a journalistic and rhetorical model. It is a science, the subject of which is "(Social) Currents". …”
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The Same Conversational Page? by Adrienne Jankens, Nicole Guinot Varty, Anna Lindner, Linda Jimenez, Anita Mixon, Carly Braxton, K.M. Begian-Lewis

“… Through surveys and focus group conversations, we studied students' experiences with instruction in writing-intensive (WI) courses at our urban R1 university and their awareness of and attitudes about linguistic and rhetorical diversity. Specifically, we explore discrepancies  between students' experiences with languaging, language judgment, and our university’s diversity and our goals as teacher-scholars who seek a university context more ready for writing instruction that embraces linguistic diversity. …”
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Mediatization of Islam in Kashmir: A Critical Content Analysis of Contemporary Islamic Socio-Religious Magazines by Dr John Koyye Babu, Muntaha Mehraj Hafiz

“…Key findings highlight recurring themes of ethics, social justice, and community solidarity, alongside the use of persuasive language and rhetorical techniques such as repetition, symbolism, and imagery. …”
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“To Ensure that these Emotions are Passed to the Next Generation”: The Netherlands American Military Cemetery in Margraten as a site of Transatlantic Memory Diplomacy during George... by Albertine Bloemendal

“…More specifically, this article demonstrates how president Bush’s visit was rhetorically and visually framed through the memory of World War II—linked to Margraten as the décor of this transatlantic diplomatic spectacle—and how this framing in turn informed ‘emotional norms’ that facilitated the creation of an unequal platform for political messaging in favor of the purposes and narratives of the official political-diplomatic actors.…”
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Religious Mapping, Epistemic Risk and Archival Adventure in Athambile Masola's Ilifa by Pumla Gqola

“…In Ilifa, specific appearances of religious language, as well as the rhetorical uses to which religious imagery and the disruption of Christian iconography are put, reveal the poet’s understanding of the making of transgenerational southern African feminist publicness. …”
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Séquence d’introduction de discours représenté : faire ou dire ? by Lotfi Abouda, Nina Rendulic

“…This process, along with its rhetorical function of sustaining active listening and involvement by the interlocutor, allows the speaker to conceal an underlying argumentative issue.…”
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For an aesthetics of ambiance by Jean-François Augoyard

“…At the epistemic level: how do we integrate the relevant knowledge that is still too exclusive? At the rhetorical level: how do the components of an ambiance organise themselves, and how can we name the configurations? …”
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Once more on musical topics and style analysis. A critical examination of Agawu’s analysis of the introduction to Beethoven’s Pathetic Sonata by Ana Stefanovic

“…Finally, the question arises of whether an ‘atomistic’, taxonomic approach to musical “topics” denies – contrary to the intentions of the authors using this term – the semantic aspect of music in which the topics ‘may be found,’ reducing it to the ‘play’ of formal elements, i.e. to purely ornamental function of rhetorical locus communis. Should the place of topic/topos perhaps be looked for elsewhere, in the plane of discourse and narrative structure of the musical text?…”
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The methodological meaning of the concept of the culture of National Liberation by Paulius Subačius

“…These concepts are meant to define in all complexity the changes of rhetorical and ideological configurations of fictive literature and social communication of the XIX century in Lithuania. …”
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For Good Reason: Analyzing How Students Define Difficulty in RateMyProfessor.com Comments by Alexis Teagarden, Michael Carlozzi

“…We argue that the comment section of student evaluations of teaching (SET) offers a rich site for studying student perspectives on teaching and learning, particularly how students define and value course and instructor difficulty. Employing rhetorically grounded approaches to computer-assisted corpus analysis, we compared 4,600 RateMyProfessors.com instructor profiles meeting the criteria of 1) instructors with high difficulty and high overall quality scores or 2) instructors with high difficulty but low overall quality scores. …”
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Metaphorical Conceptualization and its Cultural Foundations in Persian Literature (Case Study: The Metaphor of Love is War) by Jahandoost Sabzalipour, Raziye roosami juryabi

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Humorous factors and main types of humor by Ghahreman Shiri

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A Proppian reading of the poetics of narration in mysterious poems of Hosn and Del and Jamal and Jalal by Isa Darabpour, Ali Garavand, Hassan Soltani kohbanani

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Verbal and Non-verbal) pictorial) Metaphorical Conceptualization of ‘Anger’ in the Wars of “Haft Khan of Rostam” by Azadeh Sharifi Moghaddam, Fattaneh Sadat Fatemi

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A Study on Sistani Satirical Proverbs by Fatemeh Elhami

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