Jewish hermeneutics of divine testing with special reference to the epistle of James by Ellis, N

“…This juxtaposition between the author’s theological apologetic and his biblical hermeneutic has the potential to reveal either the author’s theological incoherence or his rhetorical and hermeneutical creativity.</p> <p>With these tensions of divine agency and biblical interpretation in mind, this dissertation compares the Epistle of James against other examples of ancient Jewish interpretation, interrogating two points of contact in each Jewish work: their portrayals of the cosmic drama of testing, and their resulting biblical hermeneutic. …”

‘Un mélange perpétuel de biens et de maux’: loss, longing, and narrative in the early modern Huguenot refugee memoir by Jeter, N

“…Dumont’s relation serves, in my thesis, to illustrate that these Huguenot stories have both rhetorical and practical purposes. Each chapter then offers a counter-example; that is, while each presents a certain model of writing as form of action, the texts explored in Chapters One to Three differ significantly in function. …”

Wife-abuse in eighteenth-century France by Trouille, M

“…<br/> Through close examination of a wide range of texts, Trouille shows how lawyers and novelists adopted each other’s rhetorical strategies to present competing versions of the truth. …”

The discursive construction of Iran from 1979 to 2009 in the New York Times by Jahedi, Maryam

“…Using a combination of analytical tools and approaches advocated by prominent scholars in the field of CDA, the study investigated the discursive features of The New York Times (The NYT) news media to highlight how discursive strategies, structures and related rhetorical devices were deployed to portray the Iranian nation and to provide insight into how the information presented in the news texts had ideological implications for geopolitical relations. …”
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Authorial stance in medical research articles and medical case reports written in english by native and non-native authors by Abdulhussein Swear, Muna

“…Apart from a qualitative analysis of a small portion of the data, a quantitative orientation to the analysis was also adopted utilizing corpus-based methodology in comparing authorial stance patterns found across the individual rhetorical sections of the texts, across genres, and across the native and non-native groups. …”
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A Critical Analysis of Persian Manuals of Writing and Editing (Case Study: Punctuation Marks) by Ali Akbar Ahmadi Darani, Tannaz Karamatian Fard

“…Research FindingsThere were varied opinions on using the question mark in several specific cases, and several punctuation marks for a particular purpose, such as 1) Interrogative sentences inferring a rhetorical question, 2) Interrogative sentences used for inquiries or polite requests, 3) Recurring use of question marks, and 4) Question marks inserted in brackets. …”
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Investigating the Reason for the Distinction between Skaz and the Magic of Proximity in Two ‎Sonnets by Fazel Nazari by Ziba Ghalavandi, Sayyed Mahdi Mousavi nia

“…It should be noted that in rhetorical books, applying the title "literary" to a text does not mean privileging the literary nature of that text. …”
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Framing Media Atas Pemberitaan Sertifikasi Dai by Abd Munib

“…Based on good data from syntax, thematic, rhetorical scripts from all three media: Tempo.co, Medcom.id, and BBC.com show that Tempo.co framed the importance of MUI policy in creating enlightening propagation such as "We Need Enlightening Da'wah: MUI Launch Da'i Standardization ". …”
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فاعلية التصوير في قصيدة (غريب على الخليج) للسياب by فاخر صالح ميَّا

“…It illustrates that the critical process can not be fulfilled by the automatic practice of a written course, but it is a regulated attempt to detect the "efficiency of representation" by the aid of rhetorical analysis, which benefits from the stylistic way in some of its directions. …”
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Watchdogging Populism by Rui Alexandre Novais

“…Drawing on an original combination of methodologies comprising surveys, rhetorical analysis, and qualitative interviewing, it concludes that Visão adopts an interventionist mode of the watchdog role in the reporting. …”
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التحليل الترکيبي للجملة الإنشائية الطلبيَّة في الأحاديث الأربعين النووية من منظور تداولي by حسن قطب محمد سالم العدوي

“…Abstract This research aims to demonstrate the compositional analysis of the Constructivist Sentence from a deliberative perspective، and to know the rhetorical purposes to which the Prophetic hadith came out by employing the different structural sentences in their true and metaphorical form. …”
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فاعلية التصوير في قصيدة (غريب على الخليج) للسياب by فاخر صالح ميَّا

“…It illustrates that the critical process can not be fulfilled by the automatic practice of a written course, but it is a regulated attempt to detect the "efficiency of representation" by the aid of rhetorical analysis, which benefits from the stylistic way in some of its directions. …”
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Analogie di artifex, artifex di analogie. Figure storiche e metodiche tra medioevo e modernità by Amalia Salvestrini

“…Starting from some aspects of the contemporary debate on metaphor, the article proposes a path through various figures of artifex to question the philosophical, cognitive and heuristic aim of analogy and defend its rhetorical dimension. The theme of the artifex and his creative-productive process often appears in the form of analogy. …”
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Euphemisms in Modern Political Discourse: Joseph Biden’s Speeches in the War in Uk by Nataliia M. Tymoshchuk

“…The article aims to probe into the rhetorical device of euphemism in the political discourse of the 46th President of the United States, Joseph Biden, during the Ukrainian-Russian war. …”
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Itaalia konstrueerimine nõukogude reisikirjas. The Construction of Italy in Soviet Travelogues by Anneli Kõvamees

“…The Soviet travelogue spans certain topics from a Soviet point of view and uses Soviet rhetorics and logics. The authors usually don’t even make it to the ’second level’: the travelogue remains a one-level description about things seen, and doesn’t catch any deeper train of thought or developments of the topic. …”
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Against a Migrant Cinema. Critical Reflections on the Postcolonial Perspective by Raffaele Pavoni

“…The process of othering intrinsic in any European view of the “Other”, being Eurocentrism not a rhetorical choice but an inescapable perspective (Shohat / Stam 1994), is therefore a double-edged sword: on the one hand it tends to recognise the specificity of non-European cinematographic forms, questioning some aesthetic and narrative rules of “western” cinema (where the very notion of "West", as Said notes, is intimately Eurocentric) (1978). …”
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Monumentality and its shadows : a quest for modern Greek architectural discourse in nineteenth-century Athens (1834-1862) by Fatsea, Irene D

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Fighting for control : state-sponsored terrorism as foreign policy in Cuba and Libya, 1959-2010 by Payne, John David, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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韩偓《香奁集》里的忠君情感 = Patriotic sentiments in Han Wo‘s “Xiang Lian Ji” by 林维彬 Lim, Wei Bin

“…First, the author will consolidate his patriotic evidences and with in depth reading of Han Wo’s poetries and related journals and articles of Han Wo, further enhanced by contextualizing Han Wo’s poetries along with the context of late Tang and Five dynasties, elaborates and analyses the rhetorical and emotions frequently appeared in Han Wo's poems, lastly specific analysis and interpretation of Han Wo's "Xiang Lian" poems.…”
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新加坡国家认同的建构 ：以2011年国庆庆典为例 = The construction of national identity in the case study of Singapore national day parade 2011 by 杨琇雯 Yeo, Xiu Wen

“…Considering the unique context of Singapore from history, politics, ethnicity and society, this thesis uncovers four main ways of construction, namely the co-relationship between ethnicity and modernity; crisis awareness and repression of ideology; rhetorical mechanisms involved to unify Singaporeans in National Day Rally Speech; and lastly, the surplus of symbols and weak national identity.…”
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