scholarly journals Rhetoric, discourse and the hermeneutics of public speech

Politics ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 026339572093377
Author(s):  
James Martin
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

What insights and advantages do rhetorical approaches offer over other methods of exploring social and political discourse? This article aims to clarify the contribution of rhetorical analysis by exploring its distinctive, hermeneutic attention to public speech. Public speaking is, accordingly, viewed as a practice of assembling meaningful interpretations in specific situations. Central here is a temporal dimension. Analysing rhetoric involves grasping discourse, on the one hand, as concretely situated in response to proximate constraints and, on the other hand, as a medium to move beyond the situation towards a future. Following John Caputo’s reading of Derrida, I argue that, examined rhetorically, public speech enacts a ‘negotiation’ of past and future, intertwining conditional – and hence partially calculable – positions with an ‘unconditional promise’ to prepare for what comes. Although compatible with other approaches, rhetorical analysis is uniquely attuned to this intrinsically ethical and political quality of discursive action.

Development and use of English evaluative expressions in narratives of Chinese–English bilinguals

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIANG CHEN ◽  
RUIXIA YAN
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The One

This study compares the development and use of evaluative expressions in the English narratives elicited from 80 Chinese–English bilinguals and 80 American monolingual peers at four ages – five, eight, ten, and young adults – using the wordless picture book Frog, where are you? (Mayer, 1969). Results revealed both similarities and differences between monolingual and bilingual groups. On the one hand, regardless of bilingual status, there is a clear age-related growth in the development and use of evaluative expressions. On the other hand, bilingual children in our study differed from monolingual children in the quantity and quality of evaluative clauses used. The results are discussed with respect to linguistic and cultural differences between English and Chinese.

scholarly journals Overimitation in Dogs: Is there a Link to the Quality of the Relationship with the Caregiver?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludwig Huber ◽  
Denise Kubala ◽  
Giulia Cimarelli
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
High Variability ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pet Dogs ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Functional Actions

Overimitation, the copying of causally irrelevant or non-functional actions, is well-known from humans but completely absent in other primates. Recent studies from our lab have provided evidence for overimitation in canines. Previously, we found that half of tested pet dogs copied their human caregiver's irrelevant action, while only few did so when the action was demonstrated by an unfamiliar experimenter. Therefore, we hypothesized that dogs show overimitation as a result of socio-motivational grounds. To test this more specifically, here we investigated how the relationship with the caregiver influenced the eagerness to overimitate. Given the high variability in the tendency to overimitate their caregiver, we hypothesized that not only familiarity, but also relationship quality influences whether dogs faithfully copy their caregiver. For this purpose, we measured on the one hand the overimitation tendency (with the same test as in the two studies before) and on the other hand the relationship quality between the dogs and their caregivers. Although not significant, results revealed that dogs who overimitated seemed to show more referential and affiliative behaviours towards the owner (like gazing, synchronization and greeting) than dogs who showed less or no copying of the irrelevant action. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals The adverse effects of inferior innovations

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-375
Author(s):  
Joseph W. Chang ◽  
D. Steven White
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
The Other ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
Brand Quality ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Brand Innovativeness ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The One

AbstractThis research advances brand innovation research by examining the adverse effects of inferior innovative extensions on the brand innovability of own parent brands. Brand innovability conceptually consists of brand quality and innovativeness. The results reveal that radical and incremental inferior innovations exert asymmetric adverse effects on brand quality and innovability. For brand quality, inferior radical innovations exert more negative impacts on the quality of pioneer brands than on the quality of follower brands. However, inferior incremental innovations exert identical negative impacts on the quality of both pioneer and follower brands. For brand innovability, both inferior radical and incremental innovations exert more negative impacts on the innovability of pioneer brands than on the innovability of follower brands. In comparison, brand innovability is less susceptible than brand quality to inferior innovation information. The findings suggest that it is more justified to evaluate innovative brands with brand innovability, instead of brand quality, for two reasons. Firstly, brand innovability is more realistic than brand quality because brand innovability is more relevant than brand quality to profits. Secondly, brand innovability is inclusive of brand innovativeness, which ameliorates adverse effects when innovative extensions are inferior. The threat of inferior innovative extensions is less horrible than expectation if the adverse effects on the innovative brands are assessed with brand innovability, instead of brand quality. However, being innovative is like a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it helps generating more profits. On the other hand, it endangers innovative brands to be more susceptible to inferior innovative extensions. Therefore, for marketing implications, pioneer brands are more obliged than follower brands to ensure the success of radical innovations in order to avoid the possible adverse effects of inferior radical innovations. This research contributes brand innovation research by proposing the more relevant indicator of brand innovability to evaluate innovative brands.

Recycling of Paper and Bulk Properties of Recycled Fiber

1992 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Silveri
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bulk Properties ◽  
Unit Operations ◽  
Contaminant Level ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Recycled Fiber ◽  
The One ◽  
Do So

AbstractThere are several clear trends in the recycling of paper. Firstly, the amount of recycle is increasing and will continue to do so. Secondly, recycled fiber is being used in greater quantities. Finally the recycled fiber is being introduced into higher quality paper grades which previously did not have any recycled content.This means that on the one hand the quality of the recycled furnish is deteriorating in terms of contaminant level and strength, while on the other hand there is an increased expectation in terms of properties of the end product, the recycled fiber.The major unit operations of recycling and general principles of system design are reviewed, methods for enhancing these properties and limits which can be achieved are discussed.

Metaphor as argument: A stylistic genre-based approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dany Badran
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Reader Reaction ◽  
The Way

One of the most intriguing questions in both stylistic and rhetorical analyses relates to determining textual effect on readers, aesthetic or otherwise. Whether the power of the text is directly associated with the role of the text producer and his or her intentions, the linguistic, paralinguistic, extralinguistic and situational context of the text, the background and socio-cognitive expectations of the reader, or a combination of some or all of these factors (or other factors) is a question that is still the subject of stylistic and rhetorical analysis today. This article is a further step in this direction. It attempts to investigate one dimension of textual effect, namely uniformity in reader reaction to an argumentative poem entitled Dinner with the Cannibal, by focusing on the roles that genre and metaphor play in ideologically positioning readers. It argues, on the one hand, that literature is the dominant genre in this hybrid literary-argumentative poem, channelling the readers’ initial interpretations almost exclusively in the interest of more traditional literary interpretative approaches. On the other hand, and more importantly, it focuses on the role that metaphor, as a cognitive link between text producer and reader, plays in the construction of an extremely controlled, uniform interpretation of the argumentative dimension to the poem. The overall effect of the way genre and metaphor function in this argumentative poem, it is concluded, is highly ideological.

scholarly journals Evaluation bibliothekarischer Online-Angebote: Usability und Usefulness – zwei Seiten einer Medaille

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Weinhold ◽  
Jasmin Hügi ◽  
René Schneider ◽  
Bernard Bekavac
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Online Services ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

DOI: 10.12685/027.7-1-3-39Aus Anwendersicht sind für die Qualität bibliothekarischer Online-Angebote zwei Aspekte entscheidend. Einerseits müssen für sie relevante Inhalte zur Verfügung stehen. Andererseits sollte es mög­lichst einfach und intuitiv möglich sein, diese Inhalte zu finden und auf sie zuzugreifen. Die Themen Usefulness und Usability sind daher für Bibliotheken von grosser Bedeutung. Der Beitrag beschreibt wie diese beiden Aspekte evaluiert werden können und wie Bibliotheken anhand von BibEval und PECI selb­ständig ihre Angebote überprüfen können.From the users’ point of view two aspects are essential for the quality of library online services. On the one hand, relevant content must be available. On the other hand, it should be simple and intuitive to find and to access this content. Therefore, the topics usability and usefulness are of great importance for li­braries. This article describes how these two aspects can be evaluated and how libraries can use BibEval and PECI for assessments of their own services.

The Quality of Justice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Orentlicher
Keyword(s):  
International Criminal ◽  
International Criminal Tribunal ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
War Crimes Tribunals

The author’s interviews with Bosnians generated a lengthy catalogue of frustrations with the performance of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Notably, Bosnian criticisms of the ICTY’s performance are widely echoed by international scholars and practitioners. Yet Bosnians who were interviewed, particularly Bosniaks (Muslims), are overwhelmingly glad the Tribunal was created because it provided justice, however flawed, for atrocious crimes. This chapter elucidates performance-related sources of Bosnians’ satisfaction with the ICTY on the one hand, such as landmark judgments, and disappointments on the other hand, including sentencing patterns and controversial verdicts. The chapter’s findings offer myriad practical lessons for other war crimes tribunals.

‘Complete rubbish but a real page-turner’ Chukovsky and detective stories

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
P. A. Moiseev
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Wilkie Collins ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Regular Reader ◽  
The One

K. Chukovsky was one of Russia’s first scholars of detective fiction. Yet his literary criticism on this particular topic has never been researched. Nor has it come to light that his attitude to the genre was ambivalent. On the one hand, he knew it very well, was a regular reader of detective stories and made a number of valuable observations about the works of Conan Doyle (whose writing he contrasted with the cheap sensationalist books about Nat Pinkerton, stressing the quality of logic in Conan Doyle’s stories) and Wilkie Collins. On the other hand, he often made very critical and ironic remarks about the genre, confessing that he failed to comprehend the reason for its popularity. The article suggests the grounds for Chukovsky’s attitude: he argued that literature was linked to ‘the most important personal experience’ (in the words of the writer N. Oleynikov), with entertaining literature automatically dismissed as an outsider to real art.

Legitimacy and Public-Sector Quality: How Citizens Judge the Quality of the Police

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. De Vries
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Police Performance ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The One

The legitimacy of the Dutch police is under strain. On the one hand, citizens claim that safety has become one of the most important problems in the Netherlands whilst, on the other hand, they criticise government in general and the police in particular for being unable to realise a safe society. During the previous decade, several initiatives were developed in order to relegitimise the actions of the police by improving police performance. Community policing was introduced in order to increase both the effectiveness and availability of the police. This article theoretically and empirically explores the criteria citizens use to judge the police. This article illustrates the discrepancy between the wishes and demands of citizens and the way in which public-sector organizations, such as the police, try to satisfy citizens.

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