‘Not Time to Make a Change’? Reviewing the Rhetoric of Law Reform

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Argument

Many lawyers lack a basic understanding of the structure and process of legal argumentation. Their limited understanding, which often leads to less than effective advocacy, stems from legal education's failure to make the structure and process of legal argument explicit and systematic. One approach to this problem is to explore the intrinsic relationship of law to rhetoric. Because law and rhet...

The politics of pain: rhetoric or reform?

Substance use: time for drug law reform.

I n the article " Substance abuse and developments in harm reduction " (page 1697 of this issue 1) Dr. Yuet Cheung concludes that in the 21st century harm reduction should be welcomed as an important player in addressing the use of currently illicit drugs, alongside prohibition and legalization. Other strategies that have become part of the discourse on how to resolve the drug problem include m...