Essays about: "rhetorical analysis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 138 essays containing the words rhetorical analysis.

  1. 1. 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

  2. 2. 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

  3. 3. 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

  4. 4. Turning Audiences into Activists: A Qualitative Case Study of PragerU and Moral Foundations Theory

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Natalia Pfeifer; [2023]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : YouTube plays a significant role in the right wing media ecosystem, especially as an alternative source for news and information beyond traditional media outlets. PragerU is a far right YouTube channel with over 3 million subscribers and 1. READ MORE

  5. 5. Politisk kommunikation och sociala medier: TikTok, en politisk arena där popcornätande och öldrickande vinner

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Edvin Kenning; Hugo Östlin; [2023]
    Keywords : Political communication; rhetoric; personalization; populism; frontstage; backstage; third act; TikTok; Instagram; democracy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The study aims to provide insights into political communication on social media, particularly the rise of right-wing populist parties among young voters and their connection to the theories of personification, populism, and dramaturgy. It focuses on how the Moderate Party adapts and structures its communication strategies on TikTok and Instagram in preparation for the 2022 election to engage followers. READ MORE