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Casual, Colloquial, Commonsensical: A News Values Stylistic Analysis of a Populist Newsfeed

2021

This study explores a mediated variety of right-wing populist discourse in the digital context, given the populists’ inclination to bypass legacy media to connect directly to the citizens to garner political support. It analyzes a sample of the Tea Party’s newsfeed headlines posted in the spring of 2019. A corpus of 308 headlines collected according to a “constructed week” formula has been coded first according to selected news values parameters (Bednarek and Caple 2017), and then with respect to stylistic devices operationalized in terms of “casual,” “colloquial” and “commonsensical” expressions. Methodologically, the study aims to combine the perspectives of newsworthiness and stylistics …

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Difficiles nugae: costrutti impersonali riflessivi e non riflessivi

2009

sintassi costrutti impersonali riflessivi470 Latin & Italic languages460 Spanish & Portuguese languages410 Linguistics450 Italian Romanian & related languages800 Literature rhetoric & criticismSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica440 French & related languages10103 Institute of Romance Studies
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“Never shake thy gory locks at me” (Macbeth, III.iv.50-51): Objecting to Gestures in Macbeth

2018

International audience; Shakespeare's Macbeth displays a pattern of characters objecting to gestures, be it others' or their own. This includes Macbeth refusing to shake hands with his opponent before the battle, his words to Banquo's ghost quoted in the title above, Banquo's own puzzlement at the weird sisters' placing a finger over their lips, the doctor's suspicions at Lady Macbeth's rubbing her hands and sleepwalking, as well as Malcom's request that Macduff not pull his hat over his eyes. In many of these cases, gesture is pitted against speech, which seems to undermine the classically-derived ideal of "suit[ing] the word to the action, the action to the word" (Hamlet, 3.2.16-18). This…

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Anti-pluralist arguments in the Tea Party online discourse: A mixed method analysis of populist rhetoric

2022

Populizm może być definiowany jako ideologiczny atrybut partii politycznych, jednak w niniejszym badaniu został on zoperacjonalizowany jako cecha argumentacji, pozwalająca populistom twierdzić, że są oni jedynymi wybrańcami uprawnionymi do reprezentowania interesu narodu. Antypluralistyczne argumenty tego typu wystąpiły w prawicowym dyskursie amerykańskiego ruchu politycznego Tea Party podczas wyborów do amerykańskiego Kongresu w 2018 r. Niniejsze studium przedstawia wyniki analizy oficjalnej strony internetowej Tea Party (treści z zakładki “All News”) przeprowadzonej metodą mieszaną. Wspomagana komputerowo analiza językowa słów kluczowych, konkordancji i sprzężeń (ang. couplings) na próbie…

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Ekskurs VIII. Powołania Ezechiela na stróża Izraela Ez 3,16-21 oraz Ez 33,1-20 w świetle retoryki hebrajskiej

2020

Kontekstem badań była konstatacja, że wielu komentatorów różnie określa strukturę opisywanych fragmentów Księgi Ezechiela. Czytelnik może odnieść wrażenie, że jest to zrobione na wyczucie, a wyczucie nie jest metodą naukową. Dlatego celem przeprowadzonych badań było opracowanie struktury tekstu przy pomocy naukowych metod. Wykorzystano metodę retoryki hebrajskiej, którą opracował Roland Meynet. Uzyskano wyniki: Ez 3,16-21: A, A’, B, B’ lub A, B, A’, B’; Ez 33,1-20: A, B, B’, A’; Ez 33,2-6: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, H’, G’, F’, E’, D’, C’, B’, A’; Ez 33,7-20: A, B, C, D, E, F, E’, D’, C’, B’, A’. Żeby można było sformułować naukowe, ogólne konstatacje na temat Księgi Ezechiela potrzebny jes…

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Brexit and war rhetoric, an electoral stategy?

2021

International audience; The English language is replete with bellicose expressions and references to different battles and wars involving British armed forces, in particular World War Two. This point was highlighted recently by the current occupant of 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson, who remarked that "military metaphors are old parliamentary standard practice." 1 Many such terms have entered the everyday lexicon of most Eurosceptics and Brexiteers alike. They had already become common currency in anti-European rhetoric since the 1990s, but have reached a greater level of intensity in the last four years since the Brexit referendum, when these groups or individuals discuss or denounce the …

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Trzy poziomy struktur i kompozycja w wyroczniach przeciw Egiptowi Księga Ezechiela rozdziały 29–32 w świetle retoryki hebrajskiej

2022

Kontekstem badań było to, że różni komentatorzy Księgi Ezechiela proponują różniące się między sobą struktury badanych tekstów. Większość z nich pracowała (nadal pracuje) metodami diachronicznymi. Zazwyczaj ci autorzy układają wersy w grupy i tym grupom nadają tytuły. Dlatego celem badań stało się odkrycie struktur opartych o wersy tekstu biblijnego. Można wtedy wskazać konkretne wersy (lub ich części, człony), których użył starożytny autor natchniony. Dlatego zastosowano metodę biblijnej retoryki hebrajskiej, która ma 3 etapy: analizę oddolną, analizę odgórną oraz interpretację teologiczną. W wyniku przeprowadzonych badań na pierwszych dwóch etapach odkryto, że teksty wyroczni przeciw Egip…

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Behavior change types with Pokémon GO

2017

Digital games1 are one of the most popular entertainment media in the world. Teir allure and widespread popularity makes them an interesting and highly potential platform for behavior change atempts. In this paper, we investigate what types of behavior changes Pokémon GO has promoted or induced among its players. Te study is based on an online survey sample of 262 Pokémon GO players, collected using the critical incident technique and analyzed using qualitative methods. Te analysis shows that the behavior changes induced by Pokémon GO are not just restricted to increased physical activity or social behavior but are actually much more multifaceted: players were more social, found their routi…

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Making the case for policy : persuasiveness in higher education, science and technology policy discourse

2015

Policy texts present problems, propose solutions to those problems and persuade multiple audiences of the legitimacy of the proposed problems and solutions. The rhetorical analysis of two decades of higher education and science and technology discourse in Finland, Germany, UK, Portugal and USA highlights the discursive elements that contribute to persuasiveness of policy, construe it as rational and logical, and create a sense of urgency in bringing it about. I argue that the analytical and hortatory registers of policy discourse foreground competitive and hierarchical relations of countries and their higher education systems. By construing certain state of affairs and courses of action as …

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Contents and functions of dramatizations in team decision making

2017

This study examines the contents and functions of dramatizations in natural team decision making. Theoretically, the study employs symbolic convergence theory to understand decision making as a complex phenomenon constructed in symbolic communication. Observational meeting data and thematic interview data from an autonomous team in Finland were analyzed. A fantasy theme analysis and an inductive, rhetorical discourse analysis revealed three rhetorical visions and seven functions of dramatizations in the team’s decision making. Visions represented social, righteous, and pragmatic master analogues. The functions of dramatizations were legitimizing independent and current decisions, reinforci…

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