Beyond slurs : communicating evaluative perspectives by Lenehan, Rose (Rose Elizabeth)

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“Professionals in a Soviet America” Federal Housing Policy, the Popular Front, and Architects in Los Angeles, 1919–1947 by Heard, James

“…Herbert Hoover, the then-Secretary of Commerce, served as the organization’s first president, operated it as the propaganda wing of the United States’ Commerce Department, and relied on it to rhetorically hitch “American values” to detached, single-family dwellings. …”
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Neural nets for sustainability conversations: modeling discussion disciplines and their impacts by Pugh, Katrina, Musavi, Mohamad, Johnson, Teresa, Burke, Christopher, Yoeli, Erez, Currie, Emily, Pugh, Benjamin

“…We describe a study to test alternate machine learning models for classifying six “discussion disciplines”, which are conversation features associated with rhetorical intent. The model providing the best outcome used the Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) layered with a Residual Network (ResNet). …”
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Residential development in Massachusetts : chapter 40B and the Trojan Horse by Schwartzberg, Theodore E

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METAFUNGSI, REGISTER, DAN STRUKTUR GENERIK TEKS KHOTBAH JUMAT PADA EMPAT MASJID DI KOTA JEMBER by , SUKARNO, , Prof. Dr. Syamsul Hadi, SU, MA

“…Finally, the textual meaning is realized by the lexicogrammatical units by theme system, by cohesive system, by code switching and code mixing for uniting the two languages in the text, by ungrammaticality for characterizing the spoken text, and by clause system, conjunction, and figurative language for realizing the rhetorical thrust. Secondly, in the scope of register, it shows that the variables of the context of situation are closely related to the social practice of Islamic religious services in Jember. …”

Science in propaganda and popular culture in the USSR under Khruschëv (1953-1964) by Froggatt, M

“…The way in which the rhetorical and ideological presentation of science changed during the Khrushchëv period (often identified as 'the Thaw') is analysed, and it is shown that while Soviet popular science did become increasingly open to foreign influence it became preoccupied with new threats, such as generational and personal conflict. …”

Performing barbers, surgeons and barber-surgeons in early modern English literature by Decamp, E

“…Accordingly, the argument in this study is structured thematically and focuses on the elements of performance, moving from discussions of names to discussions of settings and props, disguises, stage directions and semiotics, and from sound effects and music, to voices and rhetorical turns. In doing so, it questions what it means in early modernity to have a developed literary identity, or be deprived of one. …”

Francesco Filelfo at the court of Milan (1439-1481) by Adam, R, Adam, Rudolf George

“…It allows us to penetrate the curtain of rhetorical declamations of Filelfo's letters and to understand the economic and cultural reality that lay behind them. …”

The 1981 riots in London by Keith, MJA

“…Failures to understand what should constitute a 'cause' of a riot and the nature of social mobilisation implicated in the process of rioting have led to the easy misappropriation of rioting in academic discourse as the historical event becomes a rhetorical symbol.</p> <p>Attempting to provide the best possible description to serve as the raw materials for explanation, Home Office data is here combined with local source material to demonstrate that the disorders involved a wide range of behavioural repertoires that were not distributed evenly between old and young, black and white, 'locals' and travellers to the disturbance. …”

Identifying Romanness by Balmaceda, C

“…I shall be challenging some currents views on the complexity of evaluating ancient history by rhetorical and moral standards.</p> <p>In chapter II, I shall consider the concept of <em>virtus</em> in terms of its etymology and usage; I will then attempt to show the particular connection between <em>virtus</em> and Romanness. …”

English literature and the invention of atheism, 1564–1611 by Buchanan, F

“…Following an initial survey of the histories of atheism and unbelief, I examine the objectives and rhetorical strategies of three forms of writing in which the development of early modern conceptions of atheism is most visible. …”

Beyond schools and monasteries: literate education in late Roman Syria (350-450 AD) by Rigolio, A

“…The <em>corpus</em> consists of the Syriac translations of six literary pieces by (or attributed to) Plutarch, Lucian, and Themistius that bring together features of rhetorical education with an interest in Christian asceticism (ch. 2). …”

The purpose of perichōrēsis in the polemical works of John of Damascus by Ables, S

“…I show that he does this for polemical reasons in order to contravene each of his interlocutors with a simple biblical rhetorical model providing Chalcedonian monks in debate with a simple formula against better educated foes. …”

'What man art thou' imitation, masculinity, and homosociality in the poetry of Edward Herbert by Hardy, E

“…Travel and imitation are also themes which dominate Chapter 3, which discusses Herbert and Thomas Carew’s imitations of Giambattista Marino’s poetry and explores how political theories of diplomacy and literary theory intersect, specifically in the rhetorical trope of metonymy, prompting questions about truthful and accurate representation in embassy and poetry. …”

From neuroscience to evidence based psychological treatments – The promise and the challenge, ECNP March 2016, Nice, France by Goodwin, G, Holmes, E, Andersson, E, Browning, M, Jones, A, Lass-Hennemann, J, Månsson, K, Moessnang, C, Salemink, E, Sanchez, A, van Zutphen, L, Visser, R

“…We started by asking three rhetorical questions: What has psychology done for treatment?…”

Streaming to transgress: the racial politics of reactionary YouTubers and their audiences by Ma, C

“…I find that these YouTubers traffic in white supremacist talking points, while adopting rhetorical strategies and legitimating practices that obfuscate their ideological extremity. …”

J. S. Bach at the coffee house: music as edifying practice by Schwalbach, BN

“…As the contents of several coffee-house periodicals from the early eighteenth century suggest, edifying thought (also described as pondering, or Nachsinnen) was widely understood as a combination of critical and associative thought, which closely resembled Bach's own preoccupation with exploring musical ideas as rhetorical inventiones. Seen this way, a rich reception context emerges that, as a historical web of anthropological meaning, can shed new light, for example, on the socio-cultural context of Bach's keyboard music that was published under the title of Clavier-Übung. …”

The organising vision for telehealth and telecare: discourse analysis. by Greenhalgh, T, Procter, R, Wherton, J, Sugarhood, P, Shaw, S

“…Through repeated close reading, we identified assumptions, metaphors, storylines, scenarios, practices and rhetorical positions. We added successive findings to an emerging picture of the whole. …”

Grammatical and semantic losses in Abdel Haleem’s English translation of the Holy Quran by Abdelaal, Noureldin Mohamed

“…Other semantic losses in the translation of the Surahs include losses of the denotative and connotative meanings, overtranslation, loss in rhetorical devices and expressive meanings. These losses were the result of several main causes such as the difference in the grammatical system between the ST and the Target text, semantic complexity, culture and the translator’s failure of selecting appropriate equivalents. …”
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Sociocultural implicit meaning in english translations of the Mu'allaqat by Al-Zidi, Kamal Chfat Shatti

“…The analysis involves first, explaining the implicit meanings of ST examples by consulting the Arabic references that interpret the Mu'allaqaf in terms of linguistic, semantic and rhetorical perspective. Second, comparing the ST implicit meaning with the translated versions of the Mu'allaqaf based on the identify theories to determine to what extent the meaning of the ST and the meaning of translated IT are similar or different. …”
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