The paper discusses the development of rhetorical analyses of political addresses from classical antiquity to modern political communication. A specific genre, the ‘epideictic address’, is described in detail. It concerns addresses by representative persons. Most epideictic addresses turn out to be ‘hybrid’ texts because they combine an orientation towards (rhetorical-political) persuasion with...

The second rule of Amir Sher Ali Khan (1868-1878) has a special place in the contemporary history Afghanistan. During this period, new features political, administrative, and cultural system were introduced, institutions established country, efforts made to flourish civilization. He is one most broad-minded kings modern Afghanistan who done his best for development This article discusses social...

This paper presents resources and lexical strategies for persuasive natural language processing. After the introduction of a specifically tagged corpus of political speeches, some forms of affective language processing in persuasive communication and prospects for application scenarios are provided. In particular Valentino, a prototype for valence shifting of existing texts, is described.

It is widely recognized that every media outlet has its own ”spin” on news, and this bias has been described in many ways and at many levels. In political news for example, the bias can be liberal, conservative, moderate, corporate, etc. In addition, recent research has focused on the ’sentiment dimension’ to further identify and categorize news bias. This is achieved through analysis of the ad...

Introduction General Overviews Anthologies and Textbooks Free Will Classic Texts Contemporary Debates and their Precursors (I) Utilitarian Instrumentalism (II) Responsibility and the Reactive Sentiments (III) Identifying with our Actions (IV) The Value of Choice and Contractualist Developments Moral Reasons and Moral Address Arguments Against Control Earlier Contributions Social and Political A...

This paper outlines a political theory of digital games using conceptual resources drawn from the history of art. Beginning with a close reading of a single game—Memory of a Broken Dimension—the author develops his theoretical concerns through a contrast between Ian Bogost’s theory or procedural representation and a theoretical framework focused on the politics of skill acquisition process, emb...