This iconic speech stands not only as a masterpiece of oratory, but also as a masterpiece of parallel construction. The paragraph itself is a parallel construction, with its four sentences each leading off with the invocation ‘Now is the time.’ And within each of the two middle sentences, evocative contrasts are presented in parallel form. Using parallel structure effectively is not the sole pu...

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The influence of Eric Griffiths looms large in this book. In his 1989 study The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry, Griffiths examines the negotiation between spoken and written language that is central to the reading of Victorian poetry. In The Art of Eloquence, Matthew Bevis uses a similarly comparative approach to the languages of speech and writing as the basis for his analysis of the relati...

Despite the striking affinities of classical Greek and Latin rhetoric with pragmatist/interactionist analysis situated negotiation reality its profound relevance for human group life more generally, few contemporary social scientists are aware exceptionally astute analyses persuasive inter­change developed by Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian.
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Our experiences of temporality are defined and shaped by our experiential reality. For Māori, time have been marginalised hegemonic western-centric temporal understandings that privileged embedded into structures institutions. Modelling is a commonly-used tool for estimating the benefits interventions to inform decision-making. In addition taking little account health equity, modelling methods ...

The notion of axiological dimension texts English court discourse is researched in the paper. interdisciplinarity scientific knowledge has expanded problem field humanities themselves and led to need for a new philosophical approach Language. Therefore, mutual influence disciplines linguistic contemporary justified this situation. central concept axiology value, interpreted from perspective psy...

A bstract. Signal processing in the immune syst em is st udied in a t heoretical multilayered network. The elements in th e network have regular conn ectiviti es, with t he level of connectivity reflecti ng t he level of signal (cyto kine) multifunctionality. Each element opera tes by th e same nonlinear majority rule. An exact formul a for t he/ {;umber of fixed points is derived as a fun ctio...

Mention the words rhetoric and science together, and many people see an intrinsic contradiction. After all, two hallmarks of modern science are objectivity and empirical method, whereas rhetoric bears the marks of a long and sometimes sordid history of sophistic oratory and biased argumentation. Gerald Holton describes this distinction: Rhetoric is often perceived as the art of persuasion, whil...

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