“You Were Not There,” The Creation of Humility and Knowledge in Qur?anic Stories: A Rhetorical and Narratological Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leyla Ozgur Alhassen
Keyword(s):  
Second Person ◽  
Literary Style ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

In this study, I explore verses in the Qur?an that come towards the end of stories and use a second-person address to say, “you were not there” when this happened. I seek to understand what literary function in the story it serves to address the second person and her/ his lack of knowledge, whomever s/he is. I locate all of these verses (3:44, 11:49, 12:102 and 28:44–46) and analyze them in order to obtain a better understanding and analysis of Qur?anic literary style. I focus on what these stories have in common and how the verses function. In addition, I analyze the verses and their roles in their respective stories. Through this analysis, we see that these verses are generally seen by commentators and modern scholars as asserting the Prophet’s authority and the Qur?an’s authenticity. However, I argue that these verses function as a sophisticated Qur?anic literary and rhetorical device that works to put people in their place: Prophet Mu?ammad, his contemporaries, and all of the Qur?an’s audience, by showing them their lack of knowledge and their temporality.

Tentativeness in term formation

Terminology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojca Pecman
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Analysis Of Variation

The study on term formation presented in this paper is related to the problem of determining the function of neologisms in scientific communication and to the issue of processing the concomitant variation, typical of such new denominations. Our analysis of scientific texts shows that neologisms can have quite a different role in scientific communication than they are generally credited with in terminological studies. The well-known referential role, consisting of the creation of a new designation for naming a new concept is overshadowed in scientific texts by a more rhetorical role. Here the scientist resorts consciously to variation, hence creating a “neology effect”, specifically for the reason of emphasising various novel aspects of his thought. This function of neology as a rhetorical device is generally glossed over in terminology studies, in much the same way as the analysis of variation used to be, due to the expected stability that neologism should eventually gain in line with well-established terms. Consequently, in this article, we try to place the phenomenon of neology within the framework of discourse analysis.

The Spirit in creation

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
External Action ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Discrete Elements ◽  
Second Person ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Creation

AbstractThe result of the Arian controversy was the affirmation of the total equality of the trinitarian persons. This led to the realisation that all three persons of the Trinity are involved in every external action of God. Despite this, the role of the Holy Spirit in creation has not been clear, partly due to few specific references in the creation narratives. However, it may be suggested that the Spirit does not act in the creation of matter, which is the role of the second person, but in the provision of the underlying form and order necessary for very existence, and specifically for the dynamic interaction which is of the essence of life, as in the second account of the creation of the man (Gen 2). This reflects the fact that the action of the Spirit is also essential in salvation to link Christ's work on the cross to the believer. While separation is a feature of the Genesis creation narrative, this is balanced by the interrelating of what had been created.So, although Christian theology has commonly seen the world as ‘spirit’-less, restricting the action of the Holy Spirit to the church, this would be understood as referring to the limitation of his direct action. His immanent presence is nevertheless essential in all for very existence. The Spirit is not in the world, but underlies it.Creation may be seen as a theistic act, by transcendent intervention to give matter, and giving interaction in immanent presence. The nature of the world therefore reflects the theistic nature of God, involving both distinction and relating. Indeed it then reflects the trinitarian nature of the creator, in which the persons maintain their absolute distinction at the same time as their total equality through the interaction of perichōrēsis, specifically enabled by the action of the Spirit as generating and undergirding relationship. The parallel between the created and the creator is seen especially insofar as the discrete elements of matter interrelate to give form and interaction.It is in their interaction that the elements of creation fulfil their purpose, and so specifically that humanity reflects its nature as created in imago Dei.

scholarly journals Stylistic Devices in The Schoole of Vertue, an Early Modern Manual of Good Conduct for Children

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-124
Author(s):  
Hanna Rutkowska
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Emotional Closeness ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Good Behaviour

Abstract This paper is a case study examining the choice and interaction of stylistic devices employed in The Schoole of Vertue, Francis Segar and Robert Crowley’s manual of good manners for children issued between 1582 and 1687. It was designed to convince its readers that particular patterns of behaviour were socially beneficial and worth following. In order to enhance the attractiveness, persuasiveness, and mnemonic qualities of the text, several stylistic devices are employed in the manual, including, for example, rhymes, acronyms, as well as binomials. It is generally agreed that repetitive patterns (especially binomials) are typical of formal registers, and particularly plentiful in legal and literary texts in Early Modern English, but the present study shows that similar rhetorical devices were also readily employed in the less formal and elevated style of manuals of good behaviour. Another rhetorical device frequently used in the manual under consideration consists in addressing the reader directly with the second person singular pronoun, especially in imperative constructions, thus creating an ambiance of emotional closeness, characterising the relationship between the master and the pupil.

From Thesis to Teaching: The Practice of Using Rocks in Architecture and the Challenge of "Making it Different"

2020 ◽  
Vol 848 ◽  
pp. 157-164
Author(s):  
Risale Neves
Keyword(s):  
Access To Information ◽  
Natural Materials ◽  
Technological Data ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Materials Specifications ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

About 20 years ago, the lack of knowledge of the Brazilian architects about the use of rocks as natural materials was being commented which may have contributed to the problems of the stone coatings of buildings in several cities, compromising their original features and the beauty of many works. Professionals did not seek technological data on rocks and students were not instructed on such subjects in classrooms. The choice of these materials was supposedly empirical. Between 2010 and 2012 it was possible to obtain access to information about the contents of materials teaching in the architecture courses of Brazil, and also to inquire whether or not there was knowledge by architects active in the market on the subject, interviewing 64 professionals in 13 states from the country. The architects would be authors of architectural projects of large buildings and responsible for the materials specifications. Conclusion: there is no teaching directed to the use of rocks in Architecture in the country courses and architects never learned formally about such subject, fact that justified in a doctorate thesis proposal, the creation of the first discipline on the subject in the Course of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Pernambuco, UFPE, Brazil.

scholarly journals Los excombatientes entran en política. La creación de la Hermandad Nacional de Alféreces Provisionales (1955-1959) = The Veterans enter Politics. The Creation of the Hermandad Nacional de Alféreces Provisionales (1955-1959)

2020 ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Néstor Pastor Beato
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

El presente artículo es un fragmento del Trabajo Final de Máster que se defendió en septiembre de 2017, fue tutorizado por el profesor D. Gil Pecharromán en el marco del Máster de la España Contemporánea en el Contexto Internacional de la UNED. El trabajo consistió en una investigación sobre la importancia que tuvo la asociación de veteranos de guerra Hermandad de Alféreces Provisionales[1], cuya creación marcó la agenda política de la dictadura de finales de los años 50.  Con el trabajo, resumido en el artículo, se pretendía lograr un triple objetivo: llenar el vacío historiográfico existente en referencia a la creación de la HAP, aportar documentación nueva que apoye o no la tesis dominante de que la HAP fue una creación del Ejército como altavoz político en la escena pública; y por último, la tesis inicial del trabajo era que la HAP surgió como una idea espontánea de un grupo de veteranos alféreces provisionales, y que únicamente cuando esa idea se convirtió en una asociación con millares de miembros, el Ejército intervino para mediatizarla.his article is a fragment of a bigger research about the origin and initally importance of a civil war veteran association called «Hermandad de Alféreces Provisionales», whose apparition was really important in Francoist politics of the fifties. The «Alféreces Provisionales» were the core of the Francois army during the Spanish Civil War, and later on they were formed an important lobby inside the dictatorship regime.With the thesis, summarized in this article, there were three objectives to achieve: fill the lack of knowledge about the creation of the «HAP», get new evidence to support or not the most accepted theory,  that says that the «HAP» was a creation of the army as a way of getting more influence in politics; and finally, the initial theory of the thesis was that the  «HAP» was an unplanned project of the veterans, and only when they became a successful association, the Army intervened to control them.[1] En adelante HAP.

Repetition in Children Stories: A Dynamic Aspect of a Persuasive Strategy

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Retno Purwani Sari ◽  
Cece Sobarna ◽  
Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna ◽  
Nani Darmayanti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Interpersonal Relation ◽  
Dynamic Aspect ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The patterning of repetitions, such a persuasive strategy, proposes the involvement of author’s emotion. Therefore, it potentially stimulates children’s emotion and imagination to explore their own thoughts and to learn to understand their world while reading. By investigating interpersonal relation involved, repetitions show participants’ attitudes. Thus, this study concentrates on how they work on children’s emotion and imagination, using pragma-stylistic approach. The focus itself is managed to answer the creation of meaning. In order to challenge the objective, this study was applied analytic descriptive qualitative method to 36 data of repetitions. By reviewing empirical indications, this study claims that repetitions reach emphatic prominence involving logical emphasis and emotional state. Both of them invest accumulation of ideas to promote emotion and expectation; leading to imagination in evaluating appropriateness to behave in the society. Consequently, repetitions are debatable as a rhetorical device to persuade children to adapt social values.

scholarly journals Sonic Proxemics and the Art of Persuasion: An Analytical Framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 53-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Collins ◽  
Ruth Dockwray
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Public Service Announcements ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Audiovisual Media ◽  
The Creation

This paper introduces a framework for the creation and analysis of sonic spatialization and proxemics in audiovisual media. The authors apply the framework to three public service announcements to show how sonic proxemics can be used as a rhetorical device that may be used to strengthen political aims.

An Annotated Bibliography of Journalism Subjects in American Magazines

1947 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-179
Author(s):  
William F. Swindler ◽  
Dewitt C. Reddick ◽  
Granville C. Price
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Critical evaluation of the press, both within and outside the profession, assumed a new significance this spring as the Commission on Freedom of the Press completed its lengthy study and published a series of reports on all phases of communications. Although the reaction was generally favorable to the work of the commission, it was criticized for inadequacy in familiarizing itself with certain fundamental problems and techniques of working journalism, and especially for its evident lack of knowledge of professional journalistic education… . Another significant development of this spring has been the creation of the Society of Nieman Fellows and the publication of its quarterly Nieman Reports on professional problems. In both cases, the ultimate objective in these projects is the professional betterment of American communications through a more informed general public. W. F. S.

Altered Texts, Altered Worlds, Altered Styles

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Hoover
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Literary Style ◽  
Analytic Tool ◽  
The World ◽  
Textual Features ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Opening Paragraph

This article uses text alteration to illuminate literary style, the creation of the fictional world within literary texts, and the connections between textual features and interpretation. After briefly examining some previous uses of this technique, it discusses some recent work on how the world of the text is created and understood and then argues that altering texts can help us to understand text world creation and mind style. A series of changes of different kinds in the opening paragraph of Henry James’s The Ambassadors illustrates some of the uses of text alteration in the characterization of authorial style. The results are sometimes surprising and suggest that making focused alterations in texts can be an effective analytic tool for stylistic study more generally. Finally, I briefly re-examine the question of the connection between stylistic features and interpretation through the lens of text alteration.

Economics within environmental contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
María de los Ángeles Barrientos-Rosales
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Green Consumption ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Low Consumption ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

In the past, much was said about the mitigation of environmental impact through sustainable development, since it seeks to minimize the amount of natural resources used, but for this it was essential the existence of laws to prohibit some practices that were caused by lack of knowledge, saving money or simply negligence. This work is intended to show a brief review of how things have been changing over time, how society has evolved that consumerist mentality to a mentality of low consumption and thinking more about the possibilities they have in front of the Reuse, Reuse and Recycling. He also knows how the mentality of consumption has been oriented to green consumption, and how international environmental policies have been developed and how they influence Colombian policies. So much so that it has influenced the creation year after year of technologies that directly mitigate the environment or generate less impact on it.  

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