We argue, reason, cajole, and persuade — we deploy rhetoric — because we are social animals endowed with a symbolic mode of thought and communication who seek to shape our social environment, to compete, and to cooperate. As rhetoricians, philosophers, and semiologists have regularly noticed, some patterns of argumentation and cajolery are more successful than others. These patterns of usage — ...

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...

This paper focuses on areas of overlap between linguistic and rhetorical analyses of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. The question is raised whether and to what extent conclusions drawn from a text immanent linguistic approach, on the one hand, and those drawn from rhetorical analyses, on the other, are compatible and mutually supportive. Using Galatians as sample text, the author compares three...

This paper briefly outlines observa.tions fi'om texts made with respect to rhetorical relations and communicative goals. Then it will be shown how these ol)servations have been encoded into knowledge resources which are part of an integrated architecture for the gelmration of multimedia output. Both communicative goals and rhetorical relations are virtual constructs surface signals hint at thei...

Then he went about his regular, non-Twitter affairs. The next afternoon, fresh from a nap, he checked his account, stared at the outcome, and tweeted to @upulieto, an associate, “I just woke up. What a mess” [49]. His tweet had spiraled virally: tens of thousands of likes, retweets, endless streams of commentary. Why? Well, lots of factors, of course. There is rarely a single factor to which on...

The interaction of literary and linguistic approaches in the process analyzing a text makes it possible to penetrate into depth artistic work. This is relevance study. authors conducted philological analysis ethical S. Zweig’s short story “The Governess” using these approaches. following means were identified characterize psychological tension characters: climax introspection. linguistic-stylis...

Dubremetz, M. 2017. Detecting Rhetorical Figures Based on Repetition of Words: Chiasmus, Epanaphora, Epiphora. Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 18. 49 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0165-5. This thesis deals with the detection of three rhetorical figures based on repetition of words: chiasmus (“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”), epanaphora (“Poor old European Commiss...

The article is devoted to the analysis of figures expressive syntax presented in public speeches President Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. texts presidential rhetoric, which was transformed during Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, are considered. peculiarities speeches, implemented at syntactic level, traced. Figures analyzed: repetition, anaphora, epiphora, parallelism, period. material resea...