in primeval societies, language like all other aspects of life, was dependant on customs and traditions considered holy by people. when the societies changed and lost their natural status, a special type of language was started to develop commensurate with social changes. from the 3rd century, islamic society has witnessed important changes such as increase of wealth, power transfer, emergence ...

‘Deficit omne quod nascitur’, the Roman rhetorician Marcus Fabius Quintilianus wrote in his opus magnus “Institutio oratoria”. As death is an immanent part of human life, death and the medical profession are inseparably connected. The process of dying and death is complex, spanning the continuum of palliative care, diagnosis and certification of death, performance of last offices, and support o...

Public speaking involved the performance of one person (speaker, rhetorician) in front audience, with speaker assigned an active role, and audience – a passive one. At present stage, form public speech communication changes from monologue to dialogic is implemented types forms dialogue dispute, discussion, interview, debate, etc. Means dialogization, including questions (clarifying, rhetorical,...

IN COMMENTING on the classical authors the medieval commentators very often used a formal introduction setting out a number of topics to be treated in the commentary upon the text. This accessus ad auctores has been discussed by Quain,' who lists a wide variety of branches of study in which the accessus was used; the only significant oniission from this list is medicine. Medical examples, howev...

the pure imagination draws a new and different world in front of the eyes of the rhetorician, who has to avoid the ordinary norms of language and create new words to name the world. he does not always have the capability to create new words; so he uses the simple ordinary words to deliver his newly found concepts. he also makes imaginary and word structures to expand his lingual treasury. one o...

T he functions of sleep have been extensively studied and debated, but remain largely unknown. However, evidence has demonstrated the necessity of sleep; sleep is tightly regulated , it has a restorative nature and, if eliminated completely, can ultimately lead to death. 1 Perhaps the earliest reference to the beneficial impact of sleep on memory was by the Roman rhetorician, Quintilian, who st...

The writers who capture the minds and ears of the psychiatric community have a variety of motivations. They could want you to endorse a drug, a diagnosis, or a theory. In their efforts to persuade you, they will use rhetorical strategies. Rhetorical strategies are methods of writing to persuade a reader of an over-arching conclusion. With training in these strategies, it becomes easier for memb...

In his political interventions, Jürgen Habermas is a first-class rhetorician. His writing style eloquent, polemical, rich in aperçus and metaphors, often affective, especially angry (see Möllers, 2021, p. 85). But there are also many metaphors contributions to philosophy, social theory, theory which he clearly restrains himself rhetorically. Metaphors appear at crucial points formation. Formula...

In their article "Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Cultural Literacy" Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert start from concerns in contemporary educational debates about a growing lack of civic literacy. These complaints are raised both in the public sphere, in institutions of pedagogy, and in scholarship about the form, content, and function of civic literacy and civic education. Although there is an ongo...

In their article "Science Fiction and a Rhetorical Analysis of the 'Literature Myth'" Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert, and Geert Vandermeersche discuss what we can learn from science fiction about cultural literacy in general and literary culture in particular. From a theoretical and methodological perspective the authors start from the work of rhetorician Kenneth Burke. First, the authors concept...