Pastor Pete Peters is a minister in La Porte, Colorado. He operates a small church, an Internet website, a newsletter, and a worldwide cassette tape ministry. He teaches Christian Identity, the belief that the white race is Israel of the Bible. His rhetoric contains open derisio…
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Research writing, as well as the choice of language in which to write it, involves highly complex and socially constructed elements of strategy and design. This situatedness is particularly manifest when research writing and publishing take place in a small, peripheral scientifi…
The purpose of this study was to explore systematically the interaction among nation states by focusing on a single case of American policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict, specifically the symbolic rhetoric in presidential speeches. This study seeks to increase our knowledge a…
This study addresses some of the problems involved with defining an effective writing pedagogy in English as a Second Language (ESL) programs for students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study has two basic aims: first, to clarify specific areas of difficulties encountere…
Based on the four years of ethnography of communication field research among Igbo speakers from Nigeria, this dissertation documents a few ways that this Chicago immigrant community constructs itself through verbal art in formal meetings. Based on membership in an immigrants' as…
This study analyzes variation in lexical repetition in placement-type essays written by 134 nonnative writers and 57 native writers of English. Essays were written on either a descriptive or a persuasive topic and rated holistically for proficiency. The nonnative writers were en…
This study emerges out of a need to provide a new interpretation and critical analysis of what is considered "classical rhetorical theory." In most cases, what is termed "classical" are traditions and ideals derived from the ancient Greco-Roman world. In response to the overwhel…
The purpose of this study is to contribute new data to a dimension of African literature that remains little known: verbal art by women. This art, composed in African languages and conveyed orally, reveals values that are far more representative of the majority of African women …
This study investigates the rhetorical vision of the late Dr. T. B. Simatupang of Indonesia. Simatupang was the youngest Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army. Following his resignation from the armed forces, Simatupang began his second career in theology that led to his appoint…
The purpose of the dissertation was to analyze the multiple accounts of the Damascus Road narrative in order to determine their literary-rhetorical function in Acts through the incorporation of a literary-rhetorical methodology. The hypothesis was that the author of Acts utilize…
Proverbs 1–9 contains 10 instructions/lectures in which a “father” addresses his “son(s).” These lectures are in many respects similar. They address a “son” or “sons,” urge the son(s) to listen, not forget or guard the father's teaching, and affirm the value of this teaching. Ho…
The present study attempts to trace the composition and transmission of the Book of Amos in general and Amos 5:25–27 and 9:11–15 in particular. It argues that Amos 9:11–15 reflects a later redaction during the seventh century BCE which is characterized by its positive portrayal …
The purpose of this study is to examine the book of Obadiah seeking to look closely at the literary artistry of Obadiah's text and its theological message. Using the method of rhetorical criticism the study examines how the text of Obadiah was put together in terms of the variou…
This study examines the applicability of economic and contextual theories of literacy and education in Bangladesh. Economic theories assert that with literacy and education individuals can obtain employment and socioeconomic mobility and nations can experience development and pr…
This M.A. thesis on the mathesis of short stories sets out to distinguish the short story from the novelistic or the epic episode by exploring the difference between short-story mathesis and novelistic synthesis, arguing that the point of the short story is to impart or transmit…
This study argues that the rhetorical unit of 2 Corinthians 3:1–4:6 belongs to the genre of epideictic oratory. The encomiastic proof of 2 Cor 3:1–4:6 magnifies and lauds Paul's new covenant ministry of the Spirit and functions as an implicit appeal to the Corinthians for a comp…
Scholars agree that chapter 7 of the New Testament book of Hebrews contains a midrash on select biblical texts employing the same argumentation and hermeneutical principles as used by the rabbis. I argue in this dissertation that chapter 7 conforms to the genre of comparison (sy…
This dissertation is a literary examination of the Israelite request for kingship in 1 Samuel 8 with satire in view as its genre. Chapter 1 begins by introducing the problem and shows how scholars have interpreted 1 Samuel 8 and the initiation of Israelite kingship through time.…
Scope and method of study. In writing, nonnative ESL students may present, in addition to the traditional language accuracy problems, discourse organization difficulties accountable to their culture, L1, and context of literacy development. The purpose of this study was to inves…