Imagined ideologies: Populist figures, liberalist projections, and the horizons of constitutionalism by Zoran Oklopcic

“…If so, there is no reason not to look at populism as a rhetorical distraction from other, potentially more fruitful questions such as: What are the actual institutional features of liberal democracy—not as some abstract template of legitimate government —but as a specific, historically mutable, socio-economic and psycho-social regulatory regime? …”
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‘Stop killing us without witness’: Analyses of Rawls’s theory of justice within the context of jungle justice in Nigeria in the light of Deuteronomy 19:15–21 by Virginus U. Eze

“…As the study text is Moses’s farewell speech, this study employed rhetorical analyses in study of the biblical text and used descriptive analysis in the study of jungle justice in Nigeria. …”
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Hierarchical Clause Annotation: Building a Clause-Level Corpus for Semantic Parsing with Complex Sentences by Yunlong Fan, Bin Li, Yikemaiti Sataer, Miao Gao, Chuanqi Shi, Siyi Cao, Zhiqiang Gao

“…Previous works addressed the issue with the intuition of decomposing complex sentences and linking simple ones, such as rhetorical-structure-theory (RST)-style discourse parsing, split-and-rephrase (SPRP), text simplification (TS), simple sentence decomposition (SSD), etc. …”
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A semiótica de um enterro prematuro: o feminismo em uma era pós-feminista The semiotics of pemature burial: feminism in a postfeminist age by Mary Hawkesworth

“…By excavating and interpreting such archaic practices, I will link the rhetorical burial of contemporary feminism to an ongoing effort to undermine feminist struggles for social justice.…”
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Media image of the Russian Orthodox Church and the challenge of the pandemic by N. S. Zimova, E. V. Fomin

“…Oppositional (liberal) media show the Russian Orthodox Church as an archaic, self-serving and pro-government organisation that has turned out to be unable to prepare for a pandemic and to make the right decisions so that believers do not get coronavirus. Rhetorical, technical and analytical (social technologies) methods of framing the image of the Russian Orthodox Church are revealed.It can be argued that the Internet is dominated by a stereotypical negative and distorted image of the Russian Orthodox Church. …”
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International Consensus Statement on Public Involvement and Engagement with Data-Intensive Health Research by Mhairi Aitken, Mary Tully, Carol Porteous, Sarah Cunningham-Burley

“…Conclusion/Implications The emergence of data intensive health research and the importance of the social contract upon which it relies, demands that we move beyond rhetorical commitments and engage anew with clearly stated principles to build PI\&E into data-intensive health research at all levels.…”
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The Moral Minefield of Ethical Oil Palm and Sustainable Development by Erik Meijaard, Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil

“…Stepping outside this rhetorical extremism is necessary if we seek resolution and pragmatic advances. …”
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White capitalism within communities of craftivism: mask making and health maintenance disparities during COVID-19 by Wendy K. Z. Anderson, LaShara A. Davis

“…By fashioning a collaborative, autoethnographic approach to understanding craftivism during the 2020 coronavirus crisis, from a Black scholar doing disparities and equity focused health communication work and a white scholar engaging activist rhetorics and digital media equity scholarship, our joint recognition of economic and infrastructural privilege offered understanding of how forms of pattern design (techne) and cultural community infrastructure influenced our maker agencies and constraints. …”
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Diskursmetaphorik und ihre sprachlichen Indikatoren sowie Textmuster im literarischen Diskurs „Ich und Kaminski“ von Daniel Kehlmann by Renáta Péter-Szabó

“…However, with the cognitive turn of the 1980s a new approach emerged in modern linguistics, and linguists, for the first time, turned sharply away from the classic rhetorical understanding of metaphor. With Lakoff and Johnson’s cognitive metaphor theory („Metaphors we live by,” 1980), a new linguistic discipline emerged that recognized metaphors as conventionalized linguistic units and even extended their capacity for understanding the human cognition. …”
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Barndomskonstruktioner i skole-hjem-relationen i Danmark: – et kritisk blik by Niels Kryger

“…English abstract This article focuses on the – often implicit – understandings of childhood produced in rhetorics on home-school relations and in dominant understandings of what home-school-relations is about in a Danish context. …”
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Spiritual Enlightenment and Piety in Late 17th Century Preaching by L.S. Soboleva, A.D. Kalinina

“…The complex semantic structure of the sermon, the art of eloquence, the rhetorical strategy of exposing drunkenness associated with the creative processing of patristic and biblical quotations are noted.…”
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Mobile-assisted academic vocabulary learning with digital flashcards: Exploring the impacts on university students’ self-regulatory capacity by Tahereh Boroughani, Nastaran Behshad, Ismail Xodabande

“…Accordingly, one aspect of developing academic literacy entails helping university students learn a group of medium-frequency and cross-disciplinary words (i.e., core academic vocabulary) employed extensively to describe abstract processes and organize rhetorical aspects of academic discourse. The current study aimed to investigate the contribution of mobile-assisted vocabulary learning with digital flashcards in scaffolding academic vocabulary learning and self-regulatory capacity development among university students. …”
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A Multi-Scale Virtual Terrain for Hierarchically Structured Non-Location Data by Rui Xin, Tinghua Ai, Ruoxin Zhu, Bo Ai, Min Yang, Liqiu Meng

“…Metaphor are commonly used rhetorical devices in linguistics. Among the various types, spatial metaphors are relatively common because of their intuitive and sensible nature. …”
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Sobre el trasfondo social de la predicación mendicante en Castilla y León (siglo XIII) by Javier Pérez-Embid Wamba

“…The sermons of the Franciscan, con­ceived undoubtedly with rhetorical pat­terns, offer systematically a panoramic view of the moral contemporary atmosphere of his time, and even if they lack “national­istic” nuances, they have been transcribed as sources for the history of analytical and sociological criticism. …”
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Home Care in the Daily Lives of Older People: Protocol for an Ethnographic Two-Year Longitudinal Study by Tove Harnett, Håkan Jönson, Alexander Fäldtman

“…These include practical preparations, emotional activities such as showing an interest in staff members’ lives, or rhetorical skills in asking for help. ObjectiveThe aim of this project is to develop empirical and theoretical knowledge of eldercare as a relational practice, accomplished by older people in their daily lives. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Majalis-i Sab'e and Makatib Based on Ideational Metafunction in Halliday's Functional Grammar by Parvin Golizadeh, zohreh Sadat Naseri, Khadijeh Ahmadi Engiraki

“…The aim is to answer the question of whether there is a relationship between the frequency of these process types and the textual and rhetorical structures that are considered prominent features of these works. …”
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A Case Study of Syntactic Embedding in Transitive and Intransitive Verbs and Their Validity in the Tafsirs al-Tibyan, al-Jami' li-Ulum al-Quran, and al-Mizan by Muhammad Ibrahim Khalifah Shushtari, Azam Sadeqi

“…There are some benefits, for example, one of the benefits of using syntactic embedding is changing intransitive verbs to single-object transitive verbs and the single-object transitive verbs to two-object transitive verbs. Their syntactic-rhetorical effects are evident. Also experts of Arabic syntax are ahead of tafsir experts in giving syntactic argumentations. …”
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Investigation of epistemological indicators in socio-political talk shows of Iran TV from the perspective of critical discourse [In Persian] by Davood Madani, Hadi Arezoumandi

“…Learning markers are, in fact, linguistic forms that are considered as important rhetorical tools and ensure interaction in texts. Different models for learning analysis are presented. the Highland pattern is one of the most common and popular. …”
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GLI ALLOGLOTTI E L’ITALIANO LINGUA D’OPERA: PROBLEMATICHE LINGUISTICO-RETORICHE NELLA MANON LESCAUT DI GIACOMO PUCCINI by Livia Sutrini

“…The research aimed at highlighting the difficulties – on the rhetorical-grammatical level, but above all on linguistic-lexical level – experienced by speakers of other languages study the language of Italian opera. …”
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New “Russian Translation” of the Treatise “De Adminstrando Imperio” Amid Its Contemporary Studies by Aleksei S. Shchavelev

“…His attempts to reason about the paleography of the manuscript and the text’s structure are devoid of formal arguments and arbitrary rhetorical in their nature. The translation of the text into some artificial archaic “Slavic Russian Language” does not convey the pragmatics and stylistics of the original, but leads to a distortion of its perception. …”
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