According to the metaphorical framing model, the use of metaphors in discussing an issue influences recipients' understanding and assessment of that issue. In a recent study, participants read a text referring to a city's crime problem either as a beast or a virus and then proposed counter-measures for that problem. Participants' suggestions differed depending on the metaphor they had read. Thi...

When documents include graphics such as diagrams, photos, and data plots, the graphics may also require summarization. This paper discusses essential differences in informational content and rhetorical structure between text and graphics, as well as their interplay. The three approaches to graphics summarization discussed are: Selection, in which a subset of figures is chosen; Merging, in which...

The article analyzes the problem of rhetorical competence formation university students in process teaching Ukrainian for special purposes and proposes ways to solve it. Some aspects methodological system are proposed. Attention is focused on peculiarities students' conditions distance learning, particular use interactive forms methods which contribute linguistic personality future specialist. ...

This paper examines the hypothesis that all public policies are based, at least in part, on rhetorical strategies. By analysing public policies implemented in the context of sustainable development, this article emphasises the need for and the challenges of providing legitimate foundations for the rhetorical means used to encourage change; it is these foundations that determine a given policy’s...

This paper addresses discourse structure from the perspective of understanding. It would perhaps help us understand the nature of discourse relations if we better understood what units of a text can be related to one another. In one major theory of discourse structure, Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann & Thompson 1988; hereafter simply RST), the smallest possible linguistic units that can parti...

the implication of transposition in the structure of positive and negative sentences has been studied from the point of abd al-qāhir al-jurjānī's view in present essay. transposition is a rhetorical subject being discussed in generative-transformative grammar. jurjānī believed that words set in order in a sentence on the basis of their meanings, and emphasized that if the order of words in...

A key means of monitoring current and evolving events is through their linguistic signatures in text-based information sources (e.g, social media like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit). Given the vast quantities of available data, reliable automated analysis is vital for assisting human intelligence in detecting credible threats. This is especially true given both (i) the complexity of information...