Analytic Study of Landed Property of Foreign Nationals in Iran (1906 – 1928) by مرتضی نورایی, معصومه سمائی دستجردی, وحید عابدین پور جوشقانی

“…Increasing ownership of foreigners in the beginning of 20th century depressed Iranian politicians and persuaded them to tackle this subject. Therefore this article researches government's policy in this subject, landed classes and nationalities, geographical regions of possessions, kinds of ownership and record manners of possession documents at first quarter of 20th century.…”
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Critical Discussions in Social Networks of Cyberspace: Argumentation, Fallacies, Flouting a Maxim, Violating a Maxim, and Language Games by Sadra Khosravi, Masoud Kousari

“…They are not only reasoning to persuade others, but they may include fallacy, claiming without warrants, and using rhetorical devices for persuasion. …”
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Critical Analysis of Policy Making and Policy Implementation Metaphor: Presenting Alternative Metaphors by mohsen nobakht, Mohamad Azimi, Amin Homayeni Demirchi

“…The results show that the metaphor of Policy making and Policy implementation indirectly and covertly values actors and persuades them to act. Hence the alternative metaphor of policy development and policy enactment were presented. …”
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Graphic Design for the Real World?: Visual communication’s potential in design activism and design for social change by Sofie Beier

“…Thereafter it discusses persuasive tendencies in graphic design and questions if its current contribution to design activism is limited to its predominant narrow role of persuading for “the good cause.” To illustrate the hypothesis that such a persuasive approach lacks activist potential and thus social impact, cases that represent traditional graphic-design activism are compared to alternative approaches with an informative rather than persuasive character. …”
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Qualitative Content Analysis of the most visited websites in Health: Persuasive Content for Changing Smoking Behavior by zahra ojagh, Amin Ramezanali

“…It seems that media and virtual spaces may persuade public to make change the smoking behavior as an interfering factor. …”
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MANIPULATION AS A MARKETING STRATEGY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF BILLBOARDS IN GHANA by Joyce Coleman, Elisabeth Sekyi-Whyte

“…The analysis reveals that linguistic devices such as nominals, participles, etc., images, and multiple colours are employed in billboard advertisements to persuade consumers to patronize some product or service. …”
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Who Is He Calling WEIRD? by McCants, Anne EC

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In The WEIRDest People in the World, Henrich offers something of a big-think, global, social-science history that covers everything from psychology experiments to anthropological narrative, economic argumentation, and kinship studies, all grounded in a purported history of religious and family law. The book seeks to persuade that the West is cognitively different from the rest of the world and that its uniqueness explains every fundamental aspect of its modern trajectory—its wealth and education distributions, the progress and spread of its innovations, the presence or absence of trust outside its local communities, its formal institutions of democratic governance, and its beliefs about fairness and equality. …”
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Assessment of groundwater leakage source using hydrochemical data and isotopes in the Pandanduri dam tunnel, Lombok Island, Indonesia by Hendrayana, Heru, Putra, Doni Prakasa Eka, Setiawan, Hendy, Indrawan, I Gde Budi, Budianta, Wawan, Wilopo, Wahyu

“…Leakage or seepage in reservoirs and dams has the potential for structural instabilities persuaded by water leakage pathways and linked to economic consequences. …”
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Perbandingan Pengaruh Sikap Konsumen terhadap Iklan Komparatif dan Iklan non-Komparatif pada Niat Beli by , Prama Adistanti, , Basu Swastha Dharmmesta, Prof. Dr., M.B.A.

“…There are many kind of advertisement can be found in various types of mass media. They all try to persuade customers into buying their products or brands with any kind of promises or prepositions. …”

A multimodal discourse analysis of tourism promotional video Beijing. by Jiao, Yanwei, Hassan, Hanita

“…Tourism discourse, as a specialized type of discourse, provides information to tourists and persuades potential tourists to choose tourist destinations. …”
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Attitude, skills and task performance of accountants in the public sector by Popoola, Oluwatoyin Muse Johnson, Che Ahmad, Ayoib, Arowolo, Rachael Oluyemisi, Malek, Mazrah

“…Also, it has the potentials to persuade on efficient and effective public sector and capacity building of the workforce in the public sector. …”
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Writing preparation outlines for public speaking in tertiary classrooms by M., Murugesan

“…They should decide whether they are speaking to inform or to persuade their audience, and to write the outline that corresponds with the specific purpose of their speech. …”
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La mobilisation autour des « atrocités de l'ennemi », Russie 1914-1918 by Alexandre Sumpf

“…The Krivtsov Commission played a minor role in this affair: its members were not able to define the national perception of the ongoing conflict, to mobilize efficiently the Russian population, to persuade other nations to join the Entente, or even to elaborate a clear inculpation for a grand postwar trial against the German warfare. …”
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Deixis in English Islamic Friday sermons: A pragma-discourse analysis by Asim Ayed Alkhawaldeh

“…In the corpus, deictic expressions worked as a discourse strategy to persuade the listeners by drawing their attention and engaging them in the message of the sermon and to signal and organize the flow of information in the ongoing discourse. …”
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Rhetorical Moves, Intensification, and Mitigation in Motivation Letters for Acceptance into Graduate Schools in México by Carolina Urizar Ocampo, Eva Patricia Velásquez Upegui

“…Findings show that four rhetorical movements characterize this genre, namely, (a) to explicitly state the reasons for applying, (b) to present the applicant's objectives, (c) to persuade the reader, and (d), to express future expectations. …”
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Comparing the effect of rational and emotional appeals on donation behavior by Matthew Lindauer, Marcus Mayorga, Joshua Greene, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, Peter Singer

“…We present evidence from a pre-registered experiment indicating that a philosophical argument -- a type of rational appeal -- can persuade people to make charitable donations. The rational appeal we used follows Singer’s “shallow pond” argument (1972), while incorporating an evolutionary debunking argument (Paxton, Ungar and Greene, 2012) against favoring nearby victims over distant ones. …”
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Investigating the implications of the theories and styles of management in creating innovations by Heidar Toorāni

“…Besides these two factors, the structure, strategy, environment, measures and organizational life cycle, the controlling power on human resources, culture, attitude, and style of management should persuade innovation and support it. It will be shown that the systematic and cooperative systems, specially the theory of learning organization and cooperative and empowering styles in creating innovation by the personnel of the organization, are more efficient than other theories and styles. …”
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Modalisateurs et parabole au fondement du sermon du Pape François au Stade des Martyrs de Kinshasa by N’guessan YAO

“…La présente analyse vise alors à décrypter les indices formels et matriciels de ce dispositif énonciatif et interlocutif dont le but sous-jacent est d’émouvoir et/ou de persuader l’auditoire.  Mots-clés : marqueurs de subjectivité, dispositif énonciatif, force illocutoire, ethos, ancrage herméneutique et exégétique…”
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OSCAR Study lessons – «EpidemiOlogy and treatment of high-riSk patients in real-world ClinicAl pRactice, 2005-2006» by S. A. Shalnova, A. D. Deev

“…The program was educational: patients did not receive free simvastatin or atorvastatin for 8 weeks, but were persuaded to take the medications purchased by themselves. …”
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Conversations among Gentlemen: Elites Frame the US-Cuban Agenda, 1920s-1940s, in Foreign Affairs by Jorge I. Domínguez

“…Cuban authors deployed arguments drawn from US political and strategic discourse, as well as large doses of flattery, to persuade their US readers to go along with a string of successes for Cuban foreign policy, despite entrenched ongoing constraints, in some instances as explicit quid pro quo bargains.…”
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