Browsing by Subject "rhetoric"
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(2016-11-28)The Scottish Jacobite tradition spans a tumultuous arc of history in which imagery of Highland dress — tartan and kilts — was used to portray Highland Scots as enemies of the British state and as heroes of the British ...
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(2010-07-14)This rhetorical analysis of a contemporary and historical social movement, American conservatism, through a prominent intellectual figure, Russell Kirk, begins with a description of the author's work. Ideologies, arguments, ...
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The rhetoric of presidential summit diplomacy: Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Soviet summits, 1985-1988 (2009-05-15)President Ronald Reagan participated in more U.S.-Soviet summits than any previous U.S. president, as he met with his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, on four occasions between November 1985 and June 1988. Prior to, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Recent debates as to the place of Old South symbols and institutions in the South of the new millennium are evidence of a changing order in the South. I examine -- from a rhetorical perspective informed by Kenneth Burke's ...
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(2017-05-09)This dissertation focuses on the rhetoric of political writing in late medieval England and particularly the ways in which Yorkist writers established their own form of rhetoric for political ends. I argue that Yorkist ...
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(2023-07-20)This dissertation investigates the “Bearded Girls,” a phenomenon enjoying the spotlight in Iran's news media during 2016-2020. Bearded Girls is a nickname given by news and social media to women who disguise themselves as ...
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(2013-12-03)In this thesis, I would examine the discourse of Japan’s English language education reform for primary and secondary schools through the close reading of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology’s (MEXT) ...
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(2021-03-23)Utilizing material frames including racial-capitalism, world systems analysis, and a Black geographic approach to rhetorical cartography, this dissertation offers an analysis of the rhetorics of exiled Black political ...
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(2013-07-16)In the United States, rural culture is frequently thought of as traditional and “authentically” American. This belief stems from settler colonial histories in which Native lands are stolen and “settled” by white colonial ...
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(2009-05-15)Shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Saturday Night Live, and even South Park represent an underresearched subfield of discourse about political communication ...
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Metaphors are a convenient and intuitive means for understanding complex human conditions, but their use comes with both benefits and sacrifices. As in any written media, authors of texts pertaining to mental illness wield ...
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(2018-01)This essay is about transpilation and the future of translation work done by machines. “Transpilation” is a particularly ugly portmanteau word that refers, in web development, to a particularly confusing new concept used ...
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(Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2004)Our analysis of farmer and tavern-keeper William Manning’s 1798 Key of Libberty extends the concept of American republican rhetoric to include both elite and vernacular forms. We find that the key components of Manning’s ...
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(2019-07-11)Although he was most famous for his books of fiction and philosophy, 20th century Spanish public intellectual Miguel de Unamuno also wrote a large body of newspaper articles in which he critiqued politics and society during ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The invasion of the Western Hemisphere by empire-building Europeans brought European forms of rhetoric to the Americas. American Indians who were exposed to European-style education gradually adopted some of the cultural ...