mystical text as rhetoric (analyzing the rhetoric dimension with emphasis on metaphor & allegory)

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...

Measuring Moral Rhetoric in Text

In this paper we present a computational text analysis technique for measuring the moral loading of concepts as they are used in a corpus. This method is especially useful for the study of online corpora as it allows for the rapid analysis of moral rhetoric in texts such as blogs and tweets as events unfold. We use latent semantic analysis to compute the semantic similarity between concepts and...

Rhetoric As Knowledge

A proper assessment of the relation between discourse structure and speaker's communicat ive intentions requires a better understanding of communicative intentions. This contribution proposes that there is a crucial difference between intending the hearer to entertain a certain belief (or desire, or intention), and intending to affect the strength with which the hearer entertains the belief (or...

Court Review: Volume 39, Issue 3 - Trial by Metaphor: Rhetoric, Innovation, and the Juridical Text

Belief Metaphor, and Rhetoric: the Mormon Practice of Testimony Bearing

Like a chocolate truffle, they can inspire delicious anticipation, or, with the dulling of the taste buds that comes from overindulgence, they may strongly turn us off. But in either case, unlike other words we daily throw at each other in our very verbal society, they are never just there. They key us, they prompt us, they require us to respond. To the non-Mormon, to someone who hasn’t heard t...

the concept of metaphor in the west and islamic rhetoric

1. introduction metaphor definition in islamic rhetoric has similarities with the theories of metaphor in the west. these similarities do not mean that the traditional definition still works so that rethinking of definition and providing new definitions is not necessary anymore. such an approach certainly will not be promising. the result of these efforts will enclose metaphor in the realm of r...