Essays about: "rhetorical"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 194 essays containing the word rhetorical.

1. 1. Reading Between Words and Lines: Decoding Economic Narratives from Governmental Rhetorical Landscape of Saudi Public Investment Fund In Context of Saudi Vision 2030

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

   Author : Munshi Zubaer Haque; [2024]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This research study aims to study the press releases that had been published by the Saudi Public Investment Fund for the time period, beginning in April 2016 and ending in November 20231. This research intends to understand the potential framing strategies that had been used in the official press releases of the Saudi Public Investment Fund in its communication strategy in the broader context of Saudi Vision 2030. READ MORE

3. 2. Could this phrase be more constructional? : A Construction Grammar approach to the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase from the television show Friends

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Linn Nordlander; [2024]
   Keywords : construction grammar; information structure; CXBMY; SAI; constructions; rhetorical questions; parody;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase (CXBMY), well-known from the television show Friends, to argue for its qualification as a construction. By analyzing the phrase’s formal and functional features, as well as its frequency in the COCA corpus, this thesis compares the findings to the definition of constructions by Goldberg (2006, p. READ MORE

4. 3. Unveiling the Art of Discourse : A Genre Analysis of Ballet Reviews

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Annika Höglind; [2024]
   Keywords : Ballet Reviews; Genre; Genre Analysis; Discourse Community; Move Analysis;

   Abstract : This is a genre analysis study in linguistics whose purpose is to identify the structure of a Ballet Review using Swalesian move analysis. Whilst the review genre has been explored in the past (e.g., de Jong, & Burgers, 2018; Nodoushan & Montazeran, 2012; Taboada, 2011) there have been no dedicated studies on Ballet Reviews. READ MORE

5. 4. From Bondage to Advocacy : Gender, Double Consciousness and Abolitionist Persuasion in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

   University essay from Karlstads universitet

   Author : Hanna Engström; [2024]
   Keywords : Harriet Jacobs; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; slave narrative; gender; double consciousness; abolitionism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to explore how the interplay between gender and double consciousness is used as a rhetorical device in Harriet Jacobs’ autobiographical narrative “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861). Through a feminist theoretical lens and the concept of double consciousness I provide examples from the text illustrating Jacobs’ strategic use of different narrative techniques to convey her abolitionist message. READ MORE

6. 5. The suffocating enjoyment of the Other: An ideology critique of enjoyment in the mediatisation of the climate crisis

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Gabriel Bintley; [2024]
   Keywords : Enjoyment; Jouissance; the Other; Climate Crisis; Lacan; Žižek; Environmental Politics; Ideology Critique; Njutning; Jouissance; Den Andre; Klimatkrisen; Lacan; Žižek; Miljöpolitik; Ideologikritik;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how the Lacanian concept of ‘the enjoyment of the Other’ (la jouissance de l’Autre) can be applied to break open normative understandings of the political factors shaping the climate crisis deadlock. The principal aim is to investigate how ostensibly disconnected environmental debates may be regarded as linked by an economy of enjoyment, more precisely by the promise of enjoyment by which the subject is libidinally attached to an ideology. READ MORE