Cicerone, Orazio e il De rerum natura: un rapportarsi (in)consapevole. - Cicero, Horace, and De rerum natura: an unexpected relationship. by Valentina Vitali

“…This essay seeks to investigate this paradigm by analysing both the rhetorical works of Cicero and part of the poetic production of Horace. …”
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Heroe, Egregio, para contrabaixo e cravo: aspectos didáticos e interpretativos em uma transcrição de uma cantata do repertório colonial brasileiro Heroe, Egregio for double and har... by Fausto Borém, Cecília Nazaré de Lima

“…Moreover, these transcriptions could also allow the contact and experimentation with the so-called Historically Informed Performance (HIP), departing either from the adaptation of (aural and textual) references already consolidated in the interpretation of the European repertoire or from the analysis of historical and formal elements and rhetorical figures. This article addresses these questions in Recitativo e Aria from the academic cantata Heroe, egregio, douto, peregrino (anonymous, Salvador, 1759) for soprano, two violins and basso continuo, transcribed for a solo orchestral string instrument (violin, viola, violoncello or double bass) and harpsichord.…”
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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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Estela Figueroa y la "nueva poesía argentina": Exploración y reinvención de una conjetura de Aldo Oliva Estela Figueroa and the "new Argentinian poetry": Exploration and Reinventio... by Analía Gerbaudo

“…Second, some thematic recurrances are pointed out: the obsessions that haunt her work intersect with the analysis of her rhetorical procedures which disclose decisions that contribute to state that her poetry is founded on a "poetics of despoilment". …”
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NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE: A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION by Олег Геннадійович Данильян, Олександр Петрович Дзьобань

“…For Ukraine, the issue of Euro-Atlantic choice is not rhetorical. History cites many vivid examples that clearly demonstrate that their historical-cultural and mental sources Ukraine has always belonged to the transatlantic space. …”
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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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The artifice that endures the burden of the past : analysing memory in Angela Carter's fictional works by Yuvaneswari.

“…This paper aims to analyse the treatment and function of memory in Angela Carter’s early short fiction “A Very Great Lady and her Son at Home” and “A Souvenir of Japan” – ostensibly autobiographical works – before progressing on to a rhetorical employment of memory in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and “The Bloody Chamber”. …”
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Indigenous culture and nascent tourism in Muanenguba, Cameroon by Ngwese, Ivo Melle

“…Consequently, there is a nascent tourism discourse and practice, featuring the coexistence of exploration and local action with the concept of sustainability understood to varying degrees and mobilised rhetorically and symbolically by various actors for different purposes. …”
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The role of translation in shaping media and political discourses in times of conflict : the Syrian "Spring" in context by Ayasrah, Bilal Mohammad Farhan

“…In other words, they tend to manage it syntactically and lexically to serve pre-planned rhetorical purposes and pursue unacknowledged agendas in response to their own in-built belief system (ideology), readers' expectations and their world thoughts, or under the pressure of their commissioner. …”
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Plastic cows: purity, pollution, and polymers by Nagy, K

“…There are four expressions of plasticity that guide the study: (1) The rhetorical plasticity of animals’ symbolic cultural meaning, which addresses the recognition that animals inform human identities, and that humans give animals diverse and sometimes conflicting meanings; (2) genetic plasticity, which addresses the ways humans make animal bodies plastic through direct and indirect means; (3) behavioral plasticity, which examines the ways a species (here, cows) can adapt their behaviors to a range of contexts; and (4) material plasticity, which, in the context of plastic pollution and its impact on urban dairy cattle, examines the force of plastics’ pollutants on bodies that are connected by the food chain. …”

Medicine and narration in the eighteenth century

“…From a reading of correspondence between doctors as a means of continuing professional education, to the use of inoculation as a plotting device, or an examination of Diderot’s physiological approach to mental illness in <em>La Religieuse</em>, contributors highlight:<br/> • how doctors exploited rhetorical techniques in both clinical writing and correspondence with patients.…”

The Abbé Prévost's first-person narrators by Francis, R

“…More general observations are made on the mechanics of Prévost’s narration such as the deceptive rhetorical devices of juxtaposing different accounts of the same event by two or more narrators and the use of the <em>double registre</em> or separation of narrator from protagonist. …”

Narrative, interpretation, and moral judgement in Plutarch's lives by Chrysanthou, C

“…This analysis brings together the main strands of the earlier chapters so as to illuminate further Plutarch's narrative strategies; it also discusses the possibility that Plutarch exploits the rhetorical agonistic framework of the essay in order to elicit a similar sort of attentive and acute reader response to historical narrative, as in the <em>Lives</em>, and to arouse awareness of the precarious act of exercising moral judgement.…”

Socio-pragmatic failure in English translations of euphemistic culture-bound expressions in the Qur'an by non-muslim translators by Shihan, Abd Ali Hammood

“…Qualitative content analysis was used to examine the source data by consulting the widely used traditional exegetical and rhetorical books to determine the source text intentionality. …”
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Investigating the Stylistic Innovations of Poetry in the Maktab-e Voqu (School of Realism)‎ by Mohammad Sadegh Basiri, Najme Hosseini Sarvari, Nazanin Rostamizadeh

“…In this study, the rhetorical elements of the Maktab-e-Voqu (School of Realism) are stylistically investigated. …”
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Un processus postcolonial : la genèse de la domination kényane dans les courses de fond vue par la presse sportive spécialisée française by Cyril Thomas

“…The analysis of the discourse, from both content and enunciative strategies perspectives, highlights how French journalists resort to rhetorical models used by their British counterparts during the same period. …”
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Short Masnavi in Persian Literature (until the Eighth Century) by Mahdi Dehrami

“…The purpose of this article is to study the course and content of this type of poem, its rhetorical aspects, and the reasons for the poet's tendency to compose them. …”
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