Rhetorical Codes of Political Discourse: the Realization of the Strategic Potential of Acrothesis

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Stupina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Study ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Rhetorical Function ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Pragmatics and expressiveness of texts are formed through rhetorical devices. However, when evaluating the potential of specific rhetorical devices, one should consider the discourse characteristics of the text. Modern linguistics draws attention to the suggestive nature of the rhe-torical devices that form the structure of utterances. In this regard, there is an increasing interest in in-depth analysis of rhetorical techniques used to implement high impact strategies. A systematic study of rhetorical devices within a certain discourse would give a clearer idea of their rhetorical function. Specific strategies can be understood by examining rhetorical devices in the context of the pragmatics and the genre of a given text. Thus, information about a specific rhetorical device is converted from separate independent facts into a conditional sign unity, or a code. Given the discourse specificity of this code, linguists describe it as “rhetorical.” By analyzing the text, we identify the rhetorical code of the discourse in question. The more rhetorical devices used in the discourse are considered, the more rhetorical codes can be used to form new speech strategies. In this article, we consider the implementation of acrothesis in political discourse. Acrothesis is a rhetorical device based on the relationship of affirming something at the expense of denying its opposite. It is implemented through utilizing homogeneous members of the sentence with the obligatory negation of the opposite in meaning. Perceiving the structure and content of the rhetorical device reveals the perlocutionary purpose of the utterance, and analyzing the rhetorical device allows us to understand its properties and to identify which speech strategies are implemented by using acrothesis. Primarily, these are strategies of persuasion, persuasion, and manipulation. Principles of implementing speech strategies are important for understanding the structure of political discourse.

Undergraduate Research Abroad: Shared Themes in Student Learning from Two Models of Course-Embedded Undergraduate Research in Field Biology Study Abroad Courses

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Hamel ◽  
◽  
Hannah M. ter Hofstede ◽  
Adrienne Gauthier ◽  
David Lopatto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Learning Gains ◽  
Professional Research ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The authors present student self-reported learning gains from two undergraduate courses that embed research within study abroad courses. Students in one course worked in small groups on original research projects; students in the second course collectively contributed to one ongoing, professional research project. Differences in student learning between courses raise questions about the relationship of course structures to high-impact practices.

Managing Human Resources as a Business Strategy in Times of Disruption

2021 ◽  
pp. 300-324
Author(s):  
Javier Ospina&Bermeo
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Business World ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Strategy ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Tripartite Relationship

This chapter establishes a tripartite relationship of high impact and validity in the business world. The three concepts that are intertwined are the management of human talent, the concept of disruption, and business strategy as drivers in organizations that seek to fulfill the visionary unit that has been proposed in the existing conditions of a particular environment that presents new movements, questions, and events derived from factors such as public health, the fourth industrial revolution, caring for the environment, generational social interaction. Once the concepts described above have been understood, the authors proceed to establish the relationship that allows them to intertwine and find the points of convergence so that they can have the proposal to manage human talent in times of disruption as a business sustainability strategy.

V.—The Eve of St. Agnes and The Mysteries of Udolpho

PMLA ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
Martha Hale Shackford
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Study ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
The Mysteries Of Udolpho ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

That Keats in The Eve of St. Agnes was possibly indebted to Mrs. Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho was suggested to me by my colleague, Professor Margaret Sherwood, who pointed out several signs of relationship between the two works. Since that time I have made some study of the problem, and record the following observations. No attempt is here made to discuss the question raised by President MacCracken of Keats's obligation to Boccaccio's Filocolo, since it is not possible to reach final conclusions in regard to the matter without making a systematic study of the relationship of the Eve of St. Agnes to Floris and Blancheflur, Filocolo, Romeus and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and Christabel.

scholarly journals Special educational needs: Do we know how to educate?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 587-599
Author(s):  
José Manuel Salum Tomé
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Executive Action ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article reports the results that its objective is to analyze the evolution of political discourse in Chile on special educational needs, as well as to analyze the relationship of the discourse with the main public policy initiatives regarding legislation, fiscal budget and direct executive action. It can be seen that it is possible to identify important changes in the use of the main concepts, emphasis and discussions associated with the promotion of inclusive education. In addition, there is growing interest in the issue of diversity, both nationally and internationally, which is expressed in increasingly specific public policy initiatives to promote inclusive education. However, there are still gaps and gaps between political discourse and policy initiatives, as well as between the approach of public policies in Chile and the state of art of the international discussion on the subject.

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.

Relationship of Ego Identity to Psychosocial Effectiveness

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 815-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Psychosocial Adjustment ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study was designed to examine systematically the relationship of Erikson's concept of ego identity to psychosocial effectiveness as actually demonstrated in daily living. Two groups of Navy recruits, one composed of individuals making a highly adequate psychosocial adjustment and the second containing persons demonstrating minimally adequate adjustment, served as Ss. Highly significant differences were obtained on an operational measure of ego identity. Evidence of construct validity was adduced in terms of the predicted relationship of ego identity and a self-concept measure as well as through inter-correlation of subscores on the ego identity instrument. The results lend support both to the value of Erikson's theory in the systematic study of personality and his position that an adequate ego identity is necessary for a person to cope effectively with his social and cultural environment.

An assessment of funding and publication rates in Herpetology

2019 ◽  
pp. 262-273
Author(s):  
Bruno Ferronato
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Study ◽  
Threatened Species ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Publication Rates ◽  
Conservation Effort ◽  
Data Deficient ◽  
Basic And Applied Research ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Currently, herpetofauna worldwide is facing enormous threats; the number of threatened species is increasing at an alarming rate and many species have gone extinct. Despite efforts of institutions and researchers to understand and address the causes of declines and raise awareness of herpetofauna conservation, there has been no systematic study to evaluate the allocation of funding for basic and applied research relevant to conservation, relative publication rates, and the relationship of these measures to a degree of threat among herpetological groups. This study addresses this gap and identifies strengths and weaknesses of herpetological research and conservation over the last 10 years (2008-2018). Frogs had the highest grant-publication index (1384), followed by lizards (695), turtles (678), snakes (461.5), salamanders (366.5), crocodiles (164), caecilians (25.5), worm lizards (23) and tuatara (10). Nonetheless, when the grant-publication index is divided by the number of threatened and data-deficient species within each group, it demonstrates that, proportionally and in ascending order, salamanders, snakes, lizards, worm lizards, frogs and caecilians are in most need of knowledge and on-going funding for their conservation and survival. I was able to document a continued shift in attention in herpetological research owing to the emergence of chytridiomycosis and the global decline of amphibians. Despite some caveats, these findings should represent a proxy for the allocation of research and conservation effort on herpetofauna worldwide. I suggest priorities for research and how to better direct efforts to herpetofauna conservation.

Land, Politics and Benevolent Shamanism: The Enxet Indians in a Democratic Paraguay

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen W. Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
International Support ◽  
Land Politics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractOnly in the last century has the territory of the Enxet Indians of Paraguay been colonised by non-Indians, led initially by Anglican missionaries. This article examines the Enxet in the contemporary political context of Paraguay giving special attention to their claim for 160,000 hectares of their traditional territory. It also considers the development of a mythically expressed autochthonous political discourse and the relationship of the Indians to professional politicians. Despite significant legal backing, the Enxet land claims are strongly opposed by powerful landowners and their best chance for success will be to gain international support.

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