Shenoute’s Rhetorical Syntax: Tentative Sample of Selected Entries

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 9-24
Author(s):  
Ariel Shisha-Halevy
Keyword(s):  
Grammatical Functions ◽  
Rhetorical Tools

An ongoing encyclopaedic work, listing, illustrating, and describing Shenoute’s main grammatical rhetorical tools and devices, is here briefly presented in a tentative sample of selected entries. The following headings and domains are illustrated, with token documentation: macrosyntax, hermeneutics, style and figures, genres, registers, and grammatical functions.

Perbandingan Interjeksi dalam Bahasa Indonesia dan Bahasa Mandarin

Metahumaniora ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Uray Afrina
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Word Class ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
Grammatical Functions

AbstrakInterjeksi merupakan kelas kata yang cukup unik dan menarik dalam suatusistem bahasa. Interjeksi dalam bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa Mandarin merupakankata yang digunakan untuk menggambarkan perasaan yang ada di dalam diriseseorang, seperti marah, kesal, sedih, gembira, dan lain sebagainya. Jenis kata inidigunakan sesuai dengan intonasi ucapan yang ada, entah itu nada menaik ataupun turun. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisisdeskripsi persamaan dan perbedaan antara interjeksi dalam bahasa Indonesiadan bahasa Mandarin dalam lingkup karakteristik fonetik dan sifat poliseminya,warna emosional, fungsi tata bahasa dan kemudian membuat kesimpulan dariperbandingan tersebut. Meneliti persamaan dan perbedaan antara interjeksi dalambahasa Indonesia dan bahasa Mandarin akan membantu kita lebih memahamikarakteristik kedua bahasa tersebut dan juga memudahkan orang Indonesia dalampembelajaran bahasa Mandarin.Kata kunci: perbandingan, interjeksi, bahasa Indonesia, bahasa MandarinAbstractInterjection is a word class that is quite unique and interesting in a language system.Interjections in Indonesian and Mandarin are words used to describe feelings that exist within aperson, such as anger, resentment, sadness, joy, and so on. This type of word is used according to the intonation of the speech, whether it is an ascending or descending tone. The research method used is analyzing the description of similarities and differences between Indonesian and Chinese interjections in the phonetic characteristics, emotional colors, grammatical functions and then making conclusions from these comparisons. Examining the similarities and differences between interjections in Indonesian and Mandarin will help us better understand the characteristics of the two languages and also make it easier for Indonesian peoples to learn Chinese.Keywords: comparison, interjection, Indonesian, Mandarin

Character and Identity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Bronstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Convention ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Rhetorical Tools

What is the appeal and use of a charismatic character? Henry James’s attempt to preserve an ideal of vivid character associated with older genres like romance becomes part of James Baldwin’s set of rhetorical tools for demanding recognition of gay and black humanity. James shows the contagion of personality among characters not to reject a Victorian style of defined characterization, but as material for his protagonists’ decisive acts of self-definition. When Baldwin rejects the protest novel for failing to recognize the agency of individuals in resisting the roles society casts them in, it is through a Jamesian ideal of identity constructed out of, but not trapped within, one’s social context. The charismatically individual character provides a template for resisting the influence of social convention.

Sub-Saharan Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 182-194
Author(s):  
Larry M. Hyman ◽  
Hannah Sande ◽  
Florian Lionnet ◽  
Nicholas Rolle ◽  
Emily Clem
Keyword(s):  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Grammatical Functions

This chapter maps out the tonal, accentual, and intonational properties of sub-Saharan African languages, focusing particularly on Niger-Congo. It distinguishes tone systems by the number of contrastive tone heights and contours and their tonal distributions, as well as grammatical functions of tone. It considers positional prominence effects potentially analysed as word accent and concludes with discussion of both intonational pitch and length marking syntactic domains and clause types.

scholarly journals Dyskurs diet odchudzających we współczesnej włoskiej prasie kobiecej. Analiza jakościowa

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 187-209
Author(s):  
Joanna Ozimska
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Women's Press ◽  
The Press ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Rhetorical Tools

The discourse of slimming diets in contemporary Italian women's press. Qualitative analysis. Based on a corpus of articles extracted from contemporary Italian female magazines (2021) Donna Moderna and Grazia, this paper examines the nature of discourse of slimming diet. It is shown that the discourse has changed compared to the study conducted on the material from 2005-2008. Altogether 29 monthly issues have been analyzed. Currently emerging corpus does not contain many persuasive techniques related to emotions (Aristotle's pathos), the credibility of provided advice is enhanced mostly by arguments from authority (ethos). The innovation thus lies in the references to currently important societal topics, such as ecology (a manifestation of linguistic fashion). The research based on a rhetorical tools and analysis of press discourse shows that the topic of weight loss is treated nowadays with greater awareness and is being transferred to the pages of the men's press, in women's magazines its place is taken by e.g., cosmetic-surgical, or ecologic discourse. The conclusions from own research have been preceded by a review of theoretical issues in the field of a modern concept of a slimming diet, myth of beauty, development of the press in Italy, the role of cuisine and food in the Italian women's press.

scholarly journals Ad Hominem Arguments, Rhetoric, and Science Communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Carlo Martini
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Ad Hominem ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Rhetorical Tools

Abstract In this paper, I contend that evidence-focused strategies of science communication may be complemented by possibly more effective rhetorical arguments in current public debates on vaccines. I analyse the case of direct science communication - that is, communication of evidence - and show that it is difficult to effectively communicate evidential standards of science in the presence of well-equipped anti-science movements. Instead, I argue that effective rhetorical tools involve ad hominem strategies, that is, arguments involving claims of expertise. I provide a rationale, and sketch a methodology, for using ad hominem arguments in science communication.

scholarly journals Discourse Marker Sequencing and Grammaticalization

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Koops ◽  
Arne Lohmann
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Final Outcome ◽  
Discourse Marker ◽  
Grammatical Functions

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This paper deals with the grammatical properties of discourse markers (DMs), specifically their ordering preferences relative to one another. While the data presented here are synchronic, we approach the topic of DM sequencing from the perspective of grammaticalization. From this perspective, DMs can be understood as the result of a process in which elements serving other functions, for example grammatical functions at the level of sentential syntax, come to be conventionally used as markers of discourse-level relations, or what Schiffrin (1987: 31) operationally defined as “sequentially dependent elements which bracket units of talk.” Here we are concerned with the final outcome of this process. We ask: to what degree do fully formed DMs retain or lose the grammatical properties associated with their previous role, specifically their syntactic co-occurrence constraints? In other words, what degree of syntactic decategorialization (in the sense of Hopper 1991) do DMs display?

scholarly journals Grammaticalization in Emirati Arabic

Arabica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 742-760
Author(s):  
Najib Ismail Jarad
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Grammatical Functions

Abstract This paper is concerned with the process of language change whereby lexical items and constructions, in specific contexts, come to serve new grammatical functions. Emirati Arabic provides us with a wide range of grammaticalization phenomena. The aim of this paper is twofold: to shed light on the basic concepts relating to grammaticalization phenomena and to examine the grammaticalization of a number of constructions in Emirati Arabic, investigating their formation and the changes in their functions. The development of these grammatical constructions follows a grammaticalization pathway identified for a wide range of linguistic items cross-linguistically.

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