MAKING BODY POLITIC: THE RHETORIC OF EARLY CHRISTIAN BAPTISMAL DISCOURSE

Alcohol harm: beyond the body to the body politic.

In light of the World Health Organization's declaration that non-dependent drinking contributes more to the global burden of alcohol-related disease than does drinking by those who meet diagnostic criteria for dependence, this paper argues that clinicians, researchers and decision-makers need to consider microsocial and macrosocial impacts of alcohol use, not just addiction and clinical effects...

Rhetoric And Intentions In Discourse

On the face of it these theories are rather similar: both provide hierarchical characterisations of texts, and both seem concerned with the purpose of the text for GSDT, the text realizes the intentional structure that underlies it; and for R.ST, the text is structured in terms of the rhetorical relations that hold between its parts. But these similarities are only skin deep. The kinds of trees...

The genetics of politics: Body politic | The Economist

On Discourse Relations, Rhetorical Relations And Rhetoric

Discourses are the collaborative activities of (human) agents who have purposes for communicating. Discourse structure includes the purposes of those agents, which I take, following [GroszSid86], to be formally expressible as intentions and beliefs. While the theory of discourse structures has influenced how many computational linguists think about discourse processing, it does not preclude car...

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...