Attractiveness of Coastal Towns in the South of Italy. International Tourist Flows and Consumption in Naples, Bari, Cagliari, Messina and Reggio Calabria by Carlo Colloca, Licia Lipari

“…This deficiency has lead to the outlining of a tourism offer that mainly tends to rhetorically emphasize some scarcely significant traits rather than focus on the identity of the places themselves. …”
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الدّور الهامّ للتّدوين والتّلخيص في التّرجمة التّتبعيّة by ياسر إبراهيم

“…Equipped with the linguistic specifications, structural requirements, cultural considerations and the rhetorical purpose of both the ST and the TT, he becomes confidently capable of utilizing note-taking through this type of oral communication. …”
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Conceptual Metaphors and Their Functions in the Political Discourse of the Government of Prudence and Hope by Golnaz Ghafourisaleh, Foroogh Kazemi

“…The results show that metaphor has an important rhetorical and persuasive usage in political discourse and plays an important role in conveying the political messages of prudence and hope government’s members. …”
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«La poesía española en Milán alrededor de los “Rabisch”: caracteres de una recepción en la consonancia» by Giuseppe Mazzocchi

“…On the contrary, an essentially rhetorical and stylistic approach is now proposed for the expressionism of Lomazzo and his circle, and for its repercussions in the writings of Aldana; also his Asneida, the mysterious satyrical work by the brother of the more famous Francisco, becomes more intelligible seen in this light, as does the rest of his poetical production. …”
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Canadian newspaper coverage on harm reduction featuring bereaved mothers: A mixed methods analysis. by Heather Morris, T Cameron Wild, Marina Giovannoni, Rebecca Haines-Saah, Jakob Koziel, Petra Schulz, Hauwa Bwala, Diane Kunyk, Tania Bubela, Elaine Hyshka

“…Although harm reduction (services or policies) were advocated by the mother in most (77.8%) of these 63 texts, inductive thematic analysis of a subset (n = 52) of those articles revealed that mothers' advocacy was diminished by newspaper reporting that emphasized their experiences of grief, prioritized individual biographies over structural factors contributing to substance use harms, and created rhetorical divisions between different groups of people who use drugs (PWUD). …”
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Duursaamheid en verandering in die offers van die ou en die nuwe verbond (Hebreërs 9) by Andries H. Snyman

“…The study also identifies certain rhetorical techniques used to highlight important issues and persuade the readers to the author’s point of view.…”
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The Construction of Knowledge Claims in Three Disciplines: An Exploration of Hedging and Boosting Strategies in Research Articles Written in English by Arab and Anglophone Writers by Ghada Ali AlGhamdi, Hesham Suleiman Alyousef

“…Research background: Academic writers utilize a variety of rhetorical methods to construct their knowledge claims through hedges and boosters. …”
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Emotive metaphorics in the genres of diplomatic discourse: A dynamic aspect (based on the texts of the press conference and interview of Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in 2... by Balashova, Lubov Victorovna

“…Lavrov not only continues to systematically use reduced, ”undiplomatic” hyphenations (“vulgarisms”), but also more actively attracts bookoriented (“rhetorical”) metaphors. The cognitive and pragmatic functions of emotive metaphorics are most fully realized, as in 2022, in a system of conceptual models, the composition, structure of which and the main trends in development in 2023 are directly related to the solution of topical political and ideological problems.…”
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Using a Process-Based approach to Teaching Paragraph Development: Composing Strategies and L1/L2 Transferability in Focus by Hajar Ghafarpour, Reza Biria

“…The results indicated that triggering the proper cognitive processing and planning strategies would ameliorate the quality of written texts with various rhetorical purposes. However, the findings did not support the second objective of the study, i.e. …”
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Pax Americana and the Dissolution of Arab States: The Humanitarian Consequences (1990–2019) by Tareq Y. Ismael, Jacqueline S. Ismael

“…Since its direct military intervention in the 1990 war over Kuwait, the US increasingly engaged itself as an architect forging the region through deployment of its neoliberal economic and financial coercion, Janus-faced support for authoritarian regimes while promoting democracy, human rights and individual freedom rhetorically, as well as repeated direct military interventions into Arab states in an effort to bring about regime change. …”
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الدّور الهامّ للتّدوين والتّلخيص في التّرجمة التّتبعيّة by ياسر إبراهيم

“…Equipped with the linguistic specifications, structural requirements, cultural considerations and the rhetorical purpose of both the ST and the TT, he becomes confidently capable of utilizing note-taking through this type of oral communication. …”
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Preface as a Paratext in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield: A Pragmatic Study by Iman Ra'ouf Muhammad

“…To fulfill this aim, the study adopts an eclectic model combining Searle’s (1979) speech acts, Aristotle’s (2007) rhetorical theory, Levinson’s (1983) person deixis and Hyland’s (1998) reliability hedges. …”
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Riflessioni sparse su un poema molto commentato by Maria Cristina Cabani

“…Starting with a short history of the sixteenth-century exegetical tradition, it dwells on some of the main features of Bigi’s commentary: the amplitude of the annotations, the richness of their analytical levels (lexical, stylistic, rhetorical, intra- and intertextual, historico-biographical, and its constant attention to variants), their compliance with a comprehensive interpretation of the poem, which might be defined as a “conquered harmony”. …”
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The geber of Lam 3 in light of two-time perspective and two literary conventions / El geber de LAM 3 a la luz de la perspectiva de dos tiempos y dos convenciones literarias by Dariusz Iwanski

“…They seem to be sufficient for determining the role of the geber in the poem and possible rhetorical strategy the author employed here. The paper will also give a survey of the most crucial aspects of the scholarly debate relevant for the study. …”
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More than words: a study on the visibility of hand gestures in public spaces by Kamil Kopij, Kaja Głomb, Szymon Popławski

“…Using gestures taken from ancient Roman rhetorical treatises, which we divided into three classes related to the detail of the gestures (fingers, hand, arm, or arms), we conducted a series of experiments to determine the maximum distance from which each class of gestures could be seen. …”
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A estrutura retórica do gênero resposta argumentativa by Juliano Desiderato Antonio, Jackline Altoé dos Santos

“…O instrumento de análise foi a RST (Rhetorical Structure Theory – Teoria da Estrutura Retórica). …”
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Frakobling af formål og indhold - en strukturel diskursanalyse af læreruddannelsens (LU13) sammenhængsforståelse by Benny Bang Carlsen

“…Theoretically, the article establishes the connection between Miller´s rhetorical theory of genre and Gee´s theory of critical discourse as the framework of the research work. …”
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I PROMESSI SPOSI: PERCORSO DIDATTICO IN UNA CLASSE INTERCULTURALE by Loredana Colombo

“…The undeniable difficulties in teaching a multicultural class are particularly evident when literary texts are dealt with, for a series of obvious reasons: difficulties linked to unusual, non-standardized Italian, events set in historical-social settings which are completely unfamiliar to foreign students, the use of rhetorical figures, mythological, religious and artistic references. …”
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The Prophetic Speeches (Hadith) on Sciences and Scientists: Application of the "Text from Text and D+" Theory by Aiman Eid Al-Rawajfeh, Basem Jawabreh, Manal Ahmad

“…The study arranges the sentences of the hadiths in the section on the virtues of knowledge and scholars from Sahih al-Bukhari's book and examines their meaning and rhetorical composition. It links them with mathematical geometric relationships such as rotation, expansion through magnification and contraction, withdrawal (beginning with the beginning), and reflection (beginning with the end). …”
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Algorithmic harms and digital ageism in the use of surveillance technologies in nursing homes by Clara Berridge, Alisa Grigorovich

“…This paper illustrates specific ways in which important insights from critical race, disability and feminist studies helps us draw out the power of ageism as a rhetorical and analytical tool. We demonstrate why such engagement is necessary to realize gerontology's capacity to contribute to timely discourse on algorithmic harms and to elevate the issue of ageism for serious engagement across fields concerned with social and economic justice. …”
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