Studies on rhetorical features of language have reported both enhancing and adverse effects on ease of processing. We hypothesized that two explanations may account for these inconclusive findings. First, the respective gains and losses in ease of processing may apply to different dimensions of language processing (specifically, prosodic and semantic processing) and different types of fluency (...

Along with international research in the diverse field of genre analysis academic discourse, there has been a steady increase number studies Serbian texts and comparative between other languages. However, variety researched genres, calls for papers (CFPs) have received comparatively little attention. In this study, author compares schematic structure sample 16 English conferences humanities soc...

It takes time to get through Kierkegaard’s edifying discourses, not because philosophical and theological terminology complicates appropriation, as is the case with pseudonymous works, but rather of their rhetorical complexity. This due, in turn, fact that discourses ought be read slowly. The reader thereby exposed time, experiences which what are about. In each text, rhetoric just a meaning­fu...

As video games increasingly become an important frame of reference and as they are more and more taken seriously in education and research, there is a growing need for a methodological tool for video game analysis. In this paper, rhetorical theory in general and pentadic analysis in particular is introduced as a useful approach to stimulate a critical approach of video games. A case study is pr...

As video games increasingly become an important frame of reference and as they are more and more taken seriously in education and research, there is a growing need for a methodological tool for video game analysis. In this paper, rhetorical theory in general and pentadic analysis in particular are introduced as a useful approach to stimulate a critical approach of video games. A case study is p...