This dissertation examines the discourse generated by students and teachers at an American missionary school in Constantinople (Istanbul) between 1871, the year the school was founded, and 1923, the year of the Ottoman Empire's end and the Turkish Republic's beginning. From its …
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The purpose of the dissertation was to conduct a rhetorical analysis of the Book of Malachi in order to identify and interpret the persuasive strategy by which the prophet addressed his audience with implications for elucidating the central theme of the prophetic discourse. The …
This thesis presents a theory of how one's discursive experiences influence how images are interpreted. Specifically, one acquires discursive experiences through the readings of texts that are proximally and thematically related and unrelated to specific images as well as throug…
This dissertation argues that the prologue to Hebrews should not be interpreted so as to identify Jesus with the Jewish wisdom figure Sophia. Heb 1:1-4 is examined in the light of its structure, language, and the body of the epistle. The results are then tested against the NT pa…
Criticism concerning Spenser's place in the prophetic tradition generally recognizes the relationship between the poet's allegory and Scriptural sources, but questions remain regarding the exact nature of his prophetic enterprise. If Spenser seeks to engage his readers in text t…
In the history of ancient Israel prophets provided an alternative to the dominant rhetoric of the religious and political leaders. Working on the margins of society, the prophets critiqued political and religious priorities based on the criteria of equity and justice for all peo…
One of the metaphors that the Apostle Paul used to proclaim his understanding of the Christian experience of God's grace was justification, a metaphor taken from his Jewish background. From his understanding of the gospel, Paul needed to adapt the predominant Jewish understandin…
Ancient Israel's literary prophets are seldom viewed, by biblical scholars, as divine agents of persuasion. Instead, scholars tend to examine biblical prophecies as literature and concentrate on the form and structure of the text. In addition, because prophetic literature is abu…
In the past two and a half decades rhetorical criticism has been employed extensively to examine individual psalms, and in more recent studies the canonical shape or structure of either the entire Psalter or books therein have been the focus of attention. This dissertation utili…
Rhetoric has been defined in numerous ways and studied from a variety of perspectives. This thesis assumes that rhetoric involves the forming of thoughts and ideas into language and discourse. To borrow from Burke, the resulting discourse is never a mere “reflection of reality,”…
Bishop Thomas Dexter Jakes is founder and senior pastor of The Potter's House—a multiracial, non-denominational Church in Oak Cliffs, Texas. He is identified as one of the most prolific and influential African-American, contemporary, Christian preachers—this, according to a 1997…
Claiming women's use of public rhetorics in Classical Greece and 19 th Century American culture, this dissertation examines the social construction of gender in historical research, doctoral education in the field of rhetoric and composition, faculty/student relationships, and t…
This dissertation discusses the literary structure of the Book of Amos as found in the Hebrew Scriptures and evaluates its contribution to the book's argument. The term argument is used throughout this study to describe the synchronic development of the overall message of the bo…
In a consistent attempt to attract readers/viewers, reporters continuously seek to cover deviant events which are "newsworthy" and guarantee good stories. In retelling facts, they are, in fact telling stories. These stories almost exclusively shape the audience's perception of r…
This dissertation develops the first extended discussion of an explicitly epistemic theory and method of rhetorical criticism. Its objective is to develop a theory and method of rhetorical criticism based on the theory of rhetorical perspectivism, which provides epistemological …
This project works through some rhetorical dimensions of the media coverage of the 1991 U.S.-led war against Iraq. On a theoretical level I introduce the question of rhetoric as a deceptive performance of subjectivity that covers over its interests and internal divisions. This t…
The Arabs and Israelis have been negotiating peace for the past ten years; however, the conflict still ignites with no apparent hope for any near resolution. Understanding the rhetorical construction of the peace reality may help in managing this conflict. This study examines th…
Among the oral narratives of the Turkic people, stories about the epic hero Koroglu (Blind man's son) are among the best known and most widely distributed. From Anatolia to Central Asia, the Koroglu stories exist in cycles, or series of stories, dealing with various adventures o…
In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe articulates and dramatizes a unique and peculiar kind of rhetoric—a rhetoric that emphasizes that man, and not language, is the site for social interaction. He therefore, in some particular instances, domesticates the English language and make…