Search Results - "rhetoric"

Robert K. Merton sociology of science and sociology as science /

Table of Contents: “…Panofsky -- Merton, Mannheim, and the sociology of knowledge / Alan Sica -- The ethos of science and the ethos of democracy / Ragnvald Kalleberg -- Merton's sociology of rhetoric / Peter Simonson -- On sociological semantics as an evolving research program / Harriet Zuckerman -- How Merton sociologizes the history of ideas / Charles Camic.…”
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Back to the future of Irish studies festschrift for Tadhg Foley /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Maureen O'Connor -- Walking westward / Robert Young -- The leaving of Wessex: Thomas Hardy's emigrants / Penny Boumelha -- Nomadic figures: the "rhetorical excess" of Irishness in political economy / David Lloyd -- Roots of modernity: primitivism and primitive accumulation in nineteenth-century Ireland / Luke Gibbons -- Economy and ascendancy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gordon Bigelow -- The art and science of political economy: Nassau Senior and Ireland in the 1830s / Ciara Boylan and Tom Boylan -- Some notes on Hutcheson Macauley Posnett (1855-1927) / Joep Leerssen -- From Bruff to the Balkans: James David Bouchier / Michael Foley -- Reading between the lines / Niamh O'Sullivan -- The world, the music, and the critic: some thoughts on Said's musical transgressions / Helen O'Shea -- Noses and monotheism / Maud Ellmann.…”
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The presidential leadership dilemma between the Constitution and a political party /

Table of Contents: “…Bush -- Presidents, leverage, and significant public policy -- The base realignment and closing commission: difficult choices, electoral considerations, and the future of national leadership in a partisan age -- The paradoxes of presidential leadership in pursuing policy goals -- Taking credit and avoiding blame: the politics of rhetorical signing statements under unified and divided government -- President Obama and counterterrorism policy: when campaign promises meet governing imperatives -- Conclusion: the right choice at the right time.…”
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Contact and conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 : crusade, religion and trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks /

Table of Contents: “…New frontiers : Frankish Greece and the development of crusading in the early thirteenth century / Nikolaos Chrissis -- The Latin Empire and western contacts with Asia / Bernard Hamilton -- Golden athens : episcopal wealth and power in Greece at the time of the crusades / Teresa Shawcross -- Demetrius kydones' History of the crusades : reality or rhetoric? / Judith Ryder -- Trade or crusade? : the Zaccaria of Chios and crusades against the Turks / Mike Carr -- Sanudo, Turks, Greeks and Latins in the early fourteenth century / Peter Lock -- A Damascene eyewitness to the battle of Nicopolis : Shams al-Din ibn al-Jazari (d. 833/1429) / Ilker Evrim Bindas -- Bayezid I's foreign policy plans and priorities : power relations, statecraft, military conditions and diplomatic practice in Anatolia and the Balkans / Rhoads Murphey.…”
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Robert K. Merton sociology of science and sociology as science /

Table of Contents: “…Panofsky -- Merton, Mannheim, and the sociology of knowledge / Alan Sica -- The ethos of science and the ethos of democracy / Ragnvald Kalleberg -- Merton's sociology of rhetoric / Peter Simonson -- On sociological semantics as an evolving research program / Harriet Zuckerman -- How Merton sociologizes the history of ideas / Charles Camic.…”
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Back to the future of Irish studies festschrift for Tadhg Foley /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Maureen O'Connor -- Walking westward / Robert Young -- The leaving of Wessex: Thomas Hardy's emigrants / Penny Boumelha -- Nomadic figures: the "rhetorical excess" of Irishness in political economy / David Lloyd -- Roots of modernity: primitivism and primitive accumulation in nineteenth-century Ireland / Luke Gibbons -- Economy and ascendancy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gordon Bigelow -- The art and science of political economy: Nassau Senior and Ireland in the 1830s / Ciara Boylan and Tom Boylan -- Some notes on Hutcheson Macauley Posnett (1855-1927) / Joep Leerssen -- From Bruff to the Balkans: James David Bouchier / Michael Foley -- Reading between the lines / Niamh O'Sullivan -- The world, the music, and the critic: some thoughts on Said's musical transgressions / Helen O'Shea -- Noses and monotheism / Maud Ellmann.…”
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The presidential leadership dilemma between the Constitution and a political party /

Table of Contents: “…Bush -- Presidents, leverage, and significant public policy -- The base realignment and closing commission: difficult choices, electoral considerations, and the future of national leadership in a partisan age -- The paradoxes of presidential leadership in pursuing policy goals -- Taking credit and avoiding blame: the politics of rhetorical signing statements under unified and divided government -- President Obama and counterterrorism policy: when campaign promises meet governing imperatives -- Conclusion: the right choice at the right time.…”
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Contact and conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 : crusade, religion and trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks /

Table of Contents: “…New frontiers : Frankish Greece and the development of crusading in the early thirteenth century / Nikolaos Chrissis -- The Latin Empire and western contacts with Asia / Bernard Hamilton -- Golden athens : episcopal wealth and power in Greece at the time of the crusades / Teresa Shawcross -- Demetrius kydones' History of the crusades : reality or rhetoric? / Judith Ryder -- Trade or crusade? : the Zaccaria of Chios and crusades against the Turks / Mike Carr -- Sanudo, Turks, Greeks and Latins in the early fourteenth century / Peter Lock -- A Damascene eyewitness to the battle of Nicopolis : Shams al-Din ibn al-Jazari (d. 833/1429) / Ilker Evrim Bindas -- Bayezid I's foreign policy plans and priorities : power relations, statecraft, military conditions and diplomatic practice in Anatolia and the Balkans / Rhoads Murphey.…”
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation -- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. …”
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation -- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. …”
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Writing and speaking from the heart of my mind : selected essays and speeches / by Mugo, Micere Githae

Table of Contents: “…Advocacy for empowering the masses: translating rhetoric into action -- Meeting point between basic, subsidiary and people's rights: lessons from African orature -- Transcending colonial and neo-colonial pathological hangovers to unleash creativity -- Burying the Kasuku syndrome: constructing inventive sites of knowledge.…”

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews / by Gelbin, Cathy, Gilman, Sander

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Writing and speaking from the heart of my mind : selected essays and speeches / by Mugo, Micere Githae

Table of Contents: “…Advocacy for empowering the masses: translating rhetoric into action -- Meeting point between basic, subsidiary and people's rights: lessons from African orature -- Transcending colonial and neo-colonial pathological hangovers to unleash creativity -- Burying the Kasuku syndrome: constructing inventive sites of knowledge.…”

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews / by Gelbin, Cathy, Gilman, Sander

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Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice /

Table of Contents: “…Reid -- Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour -- Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. …”
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Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel a new literary canon / by Vakunta, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…Translation in African literature -- Theorizing literary postcoloniality -- Literary postcolonialism -- Translation and postcolonial theory -- African literature and the question of orality -- The socio-cultural context of contemporary fictional writing in Africa -- Theoretical foundations of orality and literacy -- Interface between orality and literacy in African literature -- Indigenization as a literary canon in the novels of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma and Patrice Nganang -- The technique of "bwamufication" in Boni's Crépuscle des temps anciens -- Reflexification of French words -- Proverbs, ideophones, and other rhetorical devices -- Oralization of written discourse -- The "malinkelization" of French discourse in Les soleils des indépendances -- Intralingual translation in Les soleils des indépendances -- Proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and other linguistic innovations -- Translating orality into the written word -- Code-switching as a narrative technique in Nganang's Temps de chien -- Camfranglais -- Pidgin English -- Indigenous languages.…”
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Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice /

Table of Contents: “…Reid -- Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour -- Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. …”
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Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel a new literary canon / by Vakunta, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…Translation in African literature -- Theorizing literary postcoloniality -- Literary postcolonialism -- Translation and postcolonial theory -- African literature and the question of orality -- The socio-cultural context of contemporary fictional writing in Africa -- Theoretical foundations of orality and literacy -- Interface between orality and literacy in African literature -- Indigenization as a literary canon in the novels of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma and Patrice Nganang -- The technique of "bwamufication" in Boni's Crépuscle des temps anciens -- Reflexification of French words -- Proverbs, ideophones, and other rhetorical devices -- Oralization of written discourse -- The "malinkelization" of French discourse in Les soleils des indépendances -- Intralingual translation in Les soleils des indépendances -- Proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and other linguistic innovations -- Translating orality into the written word -- Code-switching as a narrative technique in Nganang's Temps de chien -- Camfranglais -- Pidgin English -- Indigenous languages.…”
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Green Voices : Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse /

Table of Contents: “…: Margaret E. Murie's Wilderness Rhetoric / Elizabeth Lawson -- Rachel Carson's War of Words Against Government and Industry : Challenging the Objectivity of American Scientific Discourse / Michel M. …”
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Green Voices : Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse /

Table of Contents: “…: Margaret E. Murie's Wilderness Rhetoric / Elizabeth Lawson -- Rachel Carson's War of Words Against Government and Industry : Challenging the Objectivity of American Scientific Discourse / Michel M. …”
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