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Evaluation of Status as a Persuasive Tool in Spanish and American Pre-electoral Debates in Times of Crises
2018
The evaluative function of language is explored from the point of view of the expression of “status,” or how the world is presented, and its persuasive potential in pre-electoral debates in the US and Spain. The types of statements used in two comparable corpora in Spanish and English are examined using Hunston’s model (2000; 2008) for the evaluation of “status”—the degree of alignment of a proposition and the world—to discover similarities and differences between them. The results show that, in general, all politicians prefer to use statements that refer to the actual world—“world-reflecting statements” in Hunston’s classification—rather than “world-creating propositions” in an attempt to …
Describing the voice of online bullying: An analysis of stance and voice type in YouTube comments
2022
Abstract In this article, I analyze the expression of stance in YouTube comments responding to a speech by Greta Thunberg addressing the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit. I use quantitative and qualitative analysis of explicit stance features (including attitude markers, boosters, hedges, self-mentions, and reader addresses) in order to characterize the voice type that commenters construe and examine how this voice type potentially functions as a tool for social influence. The analysis shows that the comments include continual emphatic and emotive attitude marking, almost exclusively evaluating Thunberg herself (e.g., her authenticity, cognitive ability, gender and youth), rather t…
Explaining the Electoral Failure of Extreme-Right Parties in Estonia and Latvia
2009
Extreme-right political parties have achieved significant electoral success in Europe in recent years. This paper considers why this electoral success has not been replicated in contemporary Estonia and Latvia. The paper begins with a discussion of the necessary background conditions for the success of extreme-right movements, finding that they do largely exist in Estonia and Latvia. The paper then moves on to map the rising levels of extreme-right mobilisation among both titular and Russian-speaking parts of the population. We examine two hypotheses to explain the electoral failure of extreme-right parties: (1) The institutional hypothesis argues that the party and electoral laws check ext…
From Herder to Strecker: Birth and Developments of the Anthropological Notion of Culture in Germany
2023
Austrian and German anthropological traditions are considered in view of the influence they had on global anthropology. The chapter is built around the centrality of the anthropological notion of culture and cultural dynamics. The particularistic and relativist notion of culture is in fact believed to have emerged from Germany from the eighteenth century, where intellectuals have juxtaposed the term Kultur to Zivilisation. Within German anthropology, universalistic perspectives on culture have continued through the nineteenth century, as in the evolutionary approach of Gustav Klemm and Johann Jakob Bachofen. A different form of cultural universalism was introduced by Adolf Bastian with his …
Hic sunt leones. Note sul testo di commento di un documentario naturalistico,
2017
Oratory and Classicism: a Valencian speech of the 16th century in its classical sources
2006
Este artículo estudia un discurso pronunciado solemnemente en el acto de apertura del curso académico 1531-1532 en la Universidad de Valencia a partir del examen de sus fuentes clásicas y del análisis de sus recursos retóricos. Se trata de la Oratio parenetica de óptimo statu reipublicae constituendo, el único de los escritos que sepamos que se ha conservado del oriolano Cosme Damián Çavall, primer catedrático de griego del Estudi General de la ciudad, discípulo de Elio Antonio de Nebrija y Juan Andrés Strany y maestro de Miguel Jerónimo Ledesma. This article studies a solemn discourse pronounced at the University of Valencia in 1531 after its classical sources and after its rhetorical reso…
Salvatore Di Piazza. 2011. Congetture e approssimazioni. Forme del sapere in Aristotele (Milano-Udine : Mimesis)
2013
Quel est le statut épistémologique d’une discipline qui, quelquefois, n’atteint pas à ses objectifs ? C’est la question que Di Piazza pose dans Congetture e approssimazioni. Elle concerne la rhétorique et, avec elle, toutes les disciplines qui ont un statut épistémologique comparable, à commencer par la médecine. Trois éléments - disons trois piliers - délimitent le chantier de Di Piazza : la rhétorique, la médecine et la philosophie d’Aristote.Le point de départ est la décision de ne pas se ...
Relación entre complejidad y dificultad en tareas con patrones lineales reiterativos en estudiantes de 5 años
2018
Una de las finalidades de la enseñanza de las matemáticas en Educación Infantil es fomentar el pensamiento lógico, la creatividad y la capacidad para resolver problemas de los estudiantes. Entre las actividades escolares propias de estas edades es habitual encontrar tareas de identificación y continuación de patrones lineales de repetición. Esta actividad puede ser estudiada desde un contexto de resolución de problemas en el que el estudiante debe discriminar la información superflua de aquella que le permite obtener la regla de generación de la serie y resolver la tarea. Diferentes variables como la longitud del núcleo de repetición, el número de descriptores, su naturaleza o la aparición …
Rola Tradycji w Kościele. Między „archeologizmem” a „entuzjazmem”
2020
The article is an attempt to answer the question about the relation between tradition and the development of theological cognition. The church from the first centuries was aware that allegiance to the council tenets exceeds a technical repetition of council`s formulas. It is clear that a belief in dogma assumes openness to both the past and the future.In the article two approaches to tradition are criticized: archeological and enthusiastic. The first one is linked with attempt to end the possibility of adding to a developing tradition further at any point in history; the second one is a result of conviction that currents form of doctrine and church are exactly what is wanted by God.In refer…