This study is an investigation of linguistic perceptions of the Akwa Ibomians. It assessed the impact and effect of language or dialect imposition on groups other than the dominant group. The historical analysis of intergroup dynamics in the field of language evaluated the relat…
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Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in cohesion and paragraph structures between English and Bengali. For that reason I chose twelve texts from these two languages. Six of the texts were informative (biographies) and six persuasive…
Among the Igbos of Southeast Nigeria, speech, as both act and art, is metaphorically linked with gastronomy. The capable rhetor, "the man who eats words," is the practiced expert who carefully selects and measures the component of his speech in much the same way as a good cook m…
This project is designed to gain clarity about the identity and the relevancy of prophetic preaching for our time and to provide an appropriate theology of preaching for the renewal of the pulpit today. It is the thesis of this project that the renewal of the pulpit and the reco…
In the turn of the twenty-first century, some western scholars still hold that no classical rhetoric exists except classical Greek rhetoric. This paper presents the evidence to show that classical Chinese rhetoric is not only a natural practice but also a study of effective disc…
The purpose of this study is to examine the cases of misrepresentation in Demosthenes' deliberative speeches in so far as the existing evidence permits such an examination. The method of investigation was firstly to find references to the particular event described by Demosthene…
This thesis places pressure on common distinctions between rhetoric and ideology, ideas and arguments, semantics and form, by examining the use of freedom rhetoric in political speech and propaganda in post-war Britain. To do so it combines a sophisticated statistical analysis o…
This thesis is concerned with a number of phenomena in ancient oratory and rhetoric connected to <i>limits of speech</i>: being silent, pausing, not treating a topic. All of this can happen either as a matter of incapacity or failure-or deliberately. Research in this particular …
This thesis is a narratological and rhetorical study of the speeches made by leaders in the <em>Anabasis</em> as attempts at persuasion. It aims at interpreting the function of the speeches by linking a leader's use of rhetoric to the success or failure of his leadership. This t…
This research project seeks to explore aspects of the post-reporting phase of the public inquiry process. Central to the public inquiry process is the concept of legitimacy and the idea that a public inquiry provides and opportunity to re-legitimate the credibility of failed pub…
Although it is generally acknowledged that an Elizabethan grammar school education was intensely oral and aural, few studies have approached the literature of its pupils principally in light of such an understanding. There may be good reason for this paucity, since the reading o…
The principal claim defended in this thesis is that for Aristotle arousing the emotions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction, and hence a skill in doing so is properly part of an expertise in rhetoric. We set out Aristotle’s view of rhetoric as exerc…
The concern of the Catholic Church in this century and the immediate past centuries has been how the faithful will effectively internalize and role-play the Gospel in their life. The implication of this concern for the Catholic Church is rooted in the inter-cultural and counter-…
This dissertation is a study in Byzantine historiography with specific emphasis on rhetoric, politics, and gender to show that Byzantine women in the eleventh century were active participants in imperial political history, instead of isolated phenomena separate from the historic…
Persepolis: The Story of Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return are unique because they capture a generational saga within a gendered narrative of dawning self-awareness. Because the context of Iranian politics and the situation of the Muslim women are autobiographica…
The theme of death and life is a hermeneutical key to First Isaiah, although it has not generally been recognized as such. Despite the repeated references to death and life in Isaiah 1–39, no study exists that synthetically discusses the relevant passages in that corpus. This st…
This dissertation is a study of the crisis rhetoric employed by presidential advisors during the lead-up to the war in Iraq in 2003. The inquiry operates from the premise that these advisors engaged in a rhetorical movement to forward the agenda of war against Iraq. The movement…
Beginning with that infamous image of Colonel Christopher Gadseen's snake and the words "Don't tread on me," the founding of the United States of America is filled with the images of protest and expressions against an established group. Susanne Langer began to define the meeting…
In this thesis, I examine some of the most pervasive representations of masculinity in American popular television and film that have appeared in the last decade. In particular, I explore the ways in which the media have redefined the ideal manly type in response to events such …