was formatively dependent upon the theory of oral rhetoric of the ancient world, some reflections of which are still apparent today. Three oral rhetoric precepts were applied by letter writers: inventio, locating material for three kinds of letters; dispositio, organizing letters into an introduction, body, and conclusion; and style, applying ornateness along with clarity and correctness to pro...

Although little is currently known of distance education in China, especially in Western educational circles, there is a long-standing wellestablished instructional television system of distance education that has flourished in China since the 1960s (Howells, 1989). In fact, one of the world’s largest education systems is the Dianda system in China, a combined radiotelevision university system ...

terms. Tuttle v. Atlantic City Railroad Co. 60 and Mauney v. Gulf Refining Co. 6 involve the foreseeability of a plaintiff's frightened response to a defendant's negligence. In Tuttle, one of defendant railroad's cars 60 66 N.J.L. 327, 49 A. 450 (1901). 61 193 Miss. 421, 9 So. 2d 780 (1942). 1990]

Why and how do digital games make us play with them? What are their argumentative strategies of make-believe like, shaped as they are by possibilities and necessities? How do games induce constant cooperation and persuade us to play, and keep playing1? Finally, what signifies the relationship between game design(er), gameplay, and player? Let us sidestep typical answers to these questions and i...

Natural resource management is increasingly focusing on the benefits of regional planning and management. Viewed as the middle ground between ‘top-down’ bureaucracy and ‘bottom-up’ community activism, regional approaches are favoured by government at all levels. Such approaches have evolved in parallel across sectors, as governments pursue better policy delivery and programme implementation. Th...

Beyond the rhetoric, how has widespread adoption of B2B and B2C ecommerce actually impacted large bricks and mortar businesses? In this paper we review some of the economic approaches to the analysis of efficiency as well as preliminary work establishing hypotheses to be tested on a sample set, the answers we expect to see, and the implications for the Semantic Web, should all the rhetoric turn...

Many essential components of language charted by rhetoric, the ancient study of persuasion, remain understudied and underrepresented in current Natural Language systems. Our goal is to combine linguistic and rhetorical theories with discourse analysis and machine learning to develop formal models of computational rhetoric that may be usefully applied in real-world Computational Linguistics syst...