Flavius Claudius Julian's Rhetorical Speeches: Stylistic and Computational Approach

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Computational Dialectic and Rhetorical Invention

This paper has three dimensions, historical, theoretical and social. The historical dimension is to show how the Ciceronian system of dialectical argumentation served as a precursor to recent computational models like the Carneades argumentation model. The theoretical dimension is to show concretely how these models reveal the interdependency of rhetoric and logic, and so the interdependency of...

criticism of rhetorical and stylistic rubaiyat of hafiz

this essay is to study the rhetoric and stylistic features of hafiz's rubaiyat. although this literary form has not a major contribution in divan of hafiz in comparison to his lyrics, but it deserves to get more attention, because this famous poet has blown part of his spirit and inner feelings into its existence. assuming the validity of this attribution, it has been tried to analyze hafi...

Election to Cancún: A Comparative Rhetorical Criticism of President Barack Obama's Speeches on Climate Change

speeches on climate change, from the time of his election in 2008 until his conspicuous absence at the Cancún climate change talks in December 2010. Climate change is an issue of societal importance because of its negative effects on the environment and the economy. It is also important to the field of communication studies because an efficacious climate change accord relies on the ability to c...

A corpus stylistic approach to Shakespearian soliloquies

A popular interest in Shakespeare has been matched in recent years by an increasing number of computer-assisted analyses of the plays. Although not without their critics, corpus stylistic studies have offered scope and reliability in the study of literary texts, particularly through key word analyses. In this paper, I show how Wmatrix, a web-based corpus processing environment (Rayson, 2003, 20...