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Moschetta, Massimiliano. "Carlo Michelstaedter Persuasion and rhetoric /." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12132007-082309/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., committee chair; Angelo Restivo, Melissa Merritt, Christopher White, committee members. Electronic text (56 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 6, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-56).

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Yip, Elaine Yuet Ling. "Language persuasion in Hong Kong." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1994. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/24.

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Lasky, Benjamin M. "Powerful and powerless language : an examination of its role as a peripheral cue." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1020188.

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The purpose of this research was to examine the role of language in persuasion. In other words, are some language styles or variations more persuasive than others? Specifically, powerful and powerless language were studied. Powerless language contains hedges, hesitations, and tag questions. Powerful language does not contain these markers. The study involved having students listen to a message advocating comprehensive examinations for college seniors. Half the students participated in a simultaneous exercise while listening to the message to distract them from the central merits of the argumen

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Poškaitė, Agnė. "Art of Persuasion in English and Lithuanian Political Rhetoric." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080806_133604-43876.

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The thesis concerns translation issues in Lithuanian translations of English rhetorical figures (anaphora and antithesis) in political speeches delivered by different politicians. Seven political speeches in English and their Lithuanian translations were analyzed from the perspective of translation strategies and translation problems. The study uses terms for translation strategies developed by Devies’ in order to comment on Lithuanian translations of English political speeches. In order to carry out the analysis of the chosen political speeches comparative as well as contrast

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McGlaun, Sandee Kay. "Re-staging persuasion : feminist theatrical performance and/as rhetoric." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1287407418.

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Perell, Paul M. "The case for rhetoric." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0033/NQ27315.pdf.

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Lai, Yuen-ling. "An investigation into the teaching of argumentative structure to Form 7 students in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18811929.

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Cloer, Eddie. "Profiles in evangelistic persuasion a descriptive analysis of the persuasion techniques of seven preachers of the Churches of Christ /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Harstine, David K. "The proper use of persuasion in preaching to bring about transformation in the lives of the listeners." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Meyers, Robin R. "Preaching as self-persuasion : a new metaphor for the rhetoric of faith /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1991.

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Wagner, Krista Michelle. "The rhetoric of Dean Koontz's Intensity." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3350.

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This thesis examines the revision of eighteenth century gothic fiction by Dean Koontz's twentieth century horror novel, Intensity. In particular, the novel invites Aristotelian rhetorical analysis through the competing appeals staged by its antagonist, Vess, and its protagonist, Chyna.

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Null, Matthew Todd. "Capturing the Chimera: Ideology and Persuasion in the Rhetoric of Soulforce." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34241.

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For more than half a century, gay rights organizations have sought cultural and political equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals in society. The organization Soulforce continues that legacy, but from a distinctive perspective. Soulforce, has positioned itself in a unique playing field by speaking directly to religious leaders and organizations in attempt to alter their ideological underpinnings and subsequently garner their support for LGBT individuals. This level of persuasion is particularly difficult due to the fact that religious ideology is so strongly held an

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Brown, Stephen C. "The ethics of Christian preaching." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Lau, Lai Lai Cubie. "The argument structure of fund-raising texts." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2001. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/385.

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Razee, Alan Dean. "Landscapes of argument : experiencing rhetoric in the environmental advocacy of the Colorado Plateau /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8257.

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Carbone, Paula M. "Investigating a critical writing pedagogy implications for classroom practice /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1925780911&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Briscoe, Annette. "The paths of law and rhetoric from Protagoras to Perelman : case for a jurisprudential pedagogy of argument." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/833001.

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An approach commonly used to teach argument in English departments tacitly dichotomizes argument and persuasion, separates cognition from affection, and values the product over the ability to form concepts and to convey ideas with engagement. Yet contemporary texts like Annette Rottenberg's Elements of Argument indicate a growing concern that teaching argument as formal reasoning and excluding ethics and emotions fail "the complexity of arguments in practice" (v).This dissertation argues for a pedagogy of argument as "inquiry." While its intellectual roots trace to the Isocratean/Aristotelian

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Lui, Catherine L. "Developing the argumentative writing skills of sixth formers in a Hong Kong Secondary school." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14777691.

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Priddy, Cynthia S. "The effects of conjunctive affiliation/achievement needs on compliance-gaining tactic selection." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/560290.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of conjunctive affiliation/achievement needs on the selection of compliance-gaining activity. Research questions asked to what extent conjunctive achievement/affiliation needs would influence the selection of situation management options, compliance-gaining tactics, and tactic classifications. A modified version of the Adjective Check List was used to measure need orientations. Subjects responded to a hypothetical situation by indicating on a seven-level Likert-type scale their likelihood of selecting situation management options and com

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Simunich, Bethany. "Emotion arousing message forms and personal agency arguments in persuasive messages motivating effects on pro-environmental behaviors /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1228334861.

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Parry, David. "'A divine kind of rhetoric' : Puritanism and persuasion in early modern England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609393.

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Stamper, Amber M. "Witnessing the Web: The Rhetoric of American E-Vangelism and Persuasion Online." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/3.

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From the distribution of religious tracts at Ellis Island and Billy Sunday’s radio messages to televised recordings of the Billy Graham Crusade and Pat Robertson’s 700 Club, American evangelicals have long made a practice of utilizing mass media to spread the Gospel. Most recently, these Christian evangelists have gone online. As a contribution to scholarship in religious rhetoric and media studies, this dissertation offers evangelistic websites as a case study into the ways persuasion is carried out on the Internet. Through an analysis of digital texts—including several evangelical home pages

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Vanhille, Jared. "Cultivating Internal Rhetoric: Lessons on Self-Directed Rhetoric from Protestant Meditation Manuals and Modern Metacognitive Theory." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9030.

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Internal rhetoric describes how individuals engage in self-persuasion. Jean Nienkamp developed a theory of internal rhetoric by drawing on both the rhetorical tradition and the field of psychology. I build on Nienkamp's work by arguing that the Christian meditative practice outlined by Joseph Hall in The Arte of Divine Meditation (1607) and Edmund Calamy in The Art of Divine Meditation (1634) provides a theoretical and practical framework for performing a particular kind of internal rhetoric in which people become the rhetorical critic by reading their own beliefs and knowledge and then become

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Mathe, Audrin. "Persuasion as a social heuristic: A rhetorical analysis of the making of the constitution of Namibia." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3546.

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The study focuses on the rhetoric used during the drafting of the Constitution of the Republic of Namibia. The thesis will offer a framework for understanding negotiations in terms of distinct and coherent rhetoric. Primary sources for this thesis consist of five volumes of the Hansard of the Standing Committee on Standing Rules and Orders and Internal Arrangements of the Windhoek Constituent Assembly. To understand the rhetoric under which the Namibian Constitution was drafted, the Hansard of the Standing Committee was analysed. By analysing the Hansard, one can begin to formulate a picture o

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Gqwede, Eunice Nolungisa. "A pragmatic analysis of persuasion in isiXhosa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3069.

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Thesis (MA (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.<br>This study has the main goal of investigating the speech act of persuasion in isiXhosa. The main aim of the investigation is to examine the characteristics of persuasion in remedial interchanges based on the isiXhosa pragmatics. The study is concerned with the strategies people use when persuading targets, how message sources seek compliance, how targets resist and / or comply and how influence interactions are structured and what constraints on conversation need to be taken into account.

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Atkinson, Mark D. "The impact of classical rhetoric in an English-speaking international context." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Ford, Terrance A. "The persuasive appeal of selected American preachers to ethnically diverse congregations." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1182.

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King, Jason. "The rhetorics of online autism advocacy." [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University, 2009. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-10152009-091905/unrestricted/King.pdf.

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Swift, Jeffrey C. "Twitter Rhetoric: From Kinetic to Potential." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2533.

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Everyone can agree that microblogging service Twitter makes a terrible first impression. Many will agree that this impression is an accurate assessment of many microblogging media, especially considering the narcissistic and egotistical bent that so often dominates the genre. Rhetoricians are justifiably skeptical of microblogging, especially of its rhetorical value (or lack thereof). While many rhetorical scholars have contributed to the field of digital rhetoric, the field of microblogging rhetoric is still undefined. This article examines a new kind of rhetoric exhibited by Twitter, attempt

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Puangpen, Intaraprawat Steffensen Margaret S. "Metadiscourse in native English speakers' and ESL students' persuasive essays." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1988. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8818713.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1988.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed September 7, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Margaret S. Steffensen (chair), Irene T. Brosnahan, Larry D. Kennedy, Maurice A. Scharton, Janet M. Youga. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-190) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Frazier, Kyle Charles. "Efficacy in argumentation for creationist apologetic application." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Babener, Jeremy. "Presidential political rhetoric a case study in George W. Bush's Social Security reform campaign /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/985.

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鄭慶章 and Hing-cheung Kevin Cheng. "The role of personality in the use of linguistic devices inpersuasion." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31244051.

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Khuzwayo, Zoleka. "Compliance-gaining requests in educational contexts in Xhosa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49891.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This Study investigates how favor asking may be expressed in Xhosa. Both favor asking and requesting are situated in a context, where the meaning of each is necessarily driven by the way the interlocutors interpret each other's speech. Again favor asking and requesting share the same underlying intent in that a speaker tries to get a hearer to do something. People in the working environment, more especially in the educational sector, have lots of projects to do and they are obliged to ask for favors for such projects. In th

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Bistodeau, Keith Cyril. "A Historical Perspective Framed Content Analysis Investigation of Persuasive Shifts in Interstate Oratorical Association Final Round Speeches." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27324.

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This thesis explores the historical trends of persuasion as it functions in the competitive forensic setting, looking at the structures used as well as the topics of the speeches. Persuasion plays a large role in our academic and daily lives, which stresses the importance of studying this area due to the large role it plays in our society. This thesis explores the persuasive speeches in the final round of the Interstate Oratorical Association competition from 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010 to document the historical trends of persuasive strategies used as a representation of the role forensic

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Blankenship, Kevin L. "Linguistic power and persuasion : an analysis of various language style components." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1221304.

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This study examined the effect of tag questions, hesitations, and hedges on participants' attitudes toward an advocacy, perceptions of the speaker, message, and cognitive responses regarding the message. Results from 351 participants showed that although linguistic power markers affected attitudes when participants were motivated to process the message, the markers did so through different processes. The use of hesitations in an advocacy affected influenced attitudes by affecting participants' perceptions of the speaker, whereas the use of hedges influenced attitudes by affecting participants'

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Anderson, Ron James. "The Arts of Persuasion: Musical Rhetoric in the Keyboard Genres of Dieterich Buxtehude." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/242454.

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Dietrich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707) was a North German composer of the mid-Baroque period. He lived in a time and place in which classical rhetoric, the study of oratory, influenced education, religion, and music. Applying the definition of rhetoric as the art of persuasion, this study surveys the different persuasive strategies employed by Buxtehude in his various keyboard genres. The elements considered in this inquiry include the affects of keys and modes, rhetorical figures, and structures of speeches as applied to music. The style and setting (ethos), intellectual content (logos), and emot

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Motyer, Stephen. "John 8:31-59 and the rhetoric of persuasion in the fourth Gospel." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337419.

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Vauhkonen, Jouni. "A rhetoric of reduction : Bertrand de Jouvenel's pure theory of politics as persuasion /." Jyväskylä (Finlande) : University of Jyväskylä, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb391288292.

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Christiansen, Jordan. "Identification: the missing link within the rhetoric of social movements." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17678.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Communication Studies<br>Charles J. G. Griffin<br>The term and concept of identification is a familiar one. The modern communication scholar’s knowledge of the term identification is drawn more directly from the works of Kenneth Burke. In 1950 Kenneth Burke released his book “A Rhetoric of Motives” and from this Burke outlined his concept of identification. To Burke, identification is a rhetorical process that leads to persuasion, and the identification process encompasses all the traditional forms of rhetoric as a category of tools to establish identification

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Gray, Robert John Stephen, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "More than a story : an exploration of political autobiography as persuasive discourse." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1998, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/73.

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The epideictic discourse of political autobiography offers a powerful means of persuasion to attitude not otherwise available to politicians. In the extended narrative form of political autobiography, the audience's identification with characters, actions and speaker is central to persuasion. Narrative persuades implicitly by disposing the audience favourably to the rhetor and through the "common-sense assumptions" that the audience supplies in order to understand the discourse. The methodological approach used in this thesis, Fantasy Theme Analysis, addresses how the socialization process tha

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To, Kwok-kuen. "A study of the use of variation theory to enhance understanding of primary school students of argumentative writing." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35672444.

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Roy, Hugo. "Enjeux sociocritiques et sémio-rhétoriques du Grand vestiaire de Gary." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26704.

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Beginning with the premise that all literary texts are rhetorical in nature, this thesis explores the impact of the persuasive function in Romain Gary's Le grand vestiaire from the perspective of his poetics, defined in Pour Sganarelle. The analysis of typical narrative, descriptive and dialogal techniques used by the author brings to the fore at once the textual sites in which Gary's central precept, the univocity of meaning, is upheld, and the presence of ambiguities that undermine it. Likewise, the analysis of the novel's socio-historical context highlights its ideological dimensions, which

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Mantambo, Beauty Nomonde. "Ukucenga okujoliswe ekwakheni isimo somntu." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50211.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The focus of this study is to present an account of how Xhosa realizes premises and strategies of persuasion in authentic communication, assuming Larson's (1995) framework of Persuasion Theory, taking into account all the communicative information relating to environments. A comparison will be made between persuasion as communicative acts as represented in drama texts and persuasion in other communication data, which are concerned with interpersonal communication. The research aims to establish how empirical data on pe

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Ferrari, Simon. "The judgment of procedural rhetoric." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33915.

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This thesis establishes a theoretical framework for understanding virtual spaces and roleplaying in relation to Ian Bogost's theory of "procedural rhetoric," the art of persuading through rule systems alone. Bogost characterizes the persuasive power of games as setting up an Aristotelian enthymeme--an incomplete argument--that one completes through play; however, I argue that the dominant rhetoric intended by a team of game designers is subject to manipulation through player choice. Discrete structures within the play experience cause the meaning-making possibilities of a game object to pullul

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Sano, Motoki. "A linguistic exploration of persuasion in written Japanese discourse a systemic functional interpretation /." Access electronically, 2006. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/21.

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Preacher, Jon Nelsen. "Implicature and argumentation." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2437.

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This thesis explores the role, if any, that implicature plays as a strategy in informal debate. Transcripts of spontaneous debates from television and radio public affairs talk shows were analyzed with a focus on the use of implicature as a strategic rhetorical tool employed to gain advantage in an argument.

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Lane, Rebekah M. "A study of the impact of involvement and sequence in narrative persuasion." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4960.

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The purpose of this research was to look more closely at the relationships between narrative and non-narrative persuasive messages, and to begin to determine how and why these message formats might work together. I situated this study within Rogers' roadmap for future theoretical work on entertainment education (E-E), and specifically addressed Slater and Rouner's call for more research on the impact of epilogues in E-E. Synthesizing components of the elaboration likelihood model with recent theorizing regarding persuasion through narrative, I made predictions regarding the effect of transport

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Maddox, Alan. ""On the knowledge necessary for one who wishes to recite well in the theatre" the rhetorical tradition of delivery and the performance practice of recitativo semplice in eighteenth-century dramma per musica." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17971.

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Recitative is so integral an element of eighteenth-century opera that without understanding it we cannot hope to understand the genre as a whole. Yet the notation of recitativo semplice leaves so much to the discretion of the performers that it, in turn, cannot be understood without making sense of its performance practice. The aim of this study is therefore to contribute to reconstructing a theoretical and practical basis for that performance practice, and in particular, for the unnotated aspects of recitative for which it is otherwise almost impossible to account. Following Giambattista Manc

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Esmail, Shaymaa. "Persuasion in Rhetoric : A Critical Metaphor Analysis of the Use of Metaphor in Pro-war Political Speeches." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-128008.

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This paper is investigating how metaphors are used in political speeches to achieve persuasion. By analyzing three speeches dealing with the Iraqi war 2003 and delivered by Bush, Blair and Howard, I try to find out the similarities and differences in how metaphors are constructed, how they are used as a persuasive technique, and lastly if the different military contribution of the three countries affected how metaphors are constructed. The main theory used in this study is Critical Metaphor Analysis suggested by Charteris-Black (2011). The analysis suggests that the speeches contain different

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