Abstract This paper examines the use of prayers that are denoted by verb euchomai , and their function as a means affecting cognitive/emotional disposition people in forensic, symbouleutic epideictic orations. It is argued (references to) may be explicit or implicit character, they serve variety purposes: to secure goodwill audience for speaker; present his character civic/political qualities p...

E PIDEICTIC RHETORIC—THE RHETORIC OF ‘‘PRAISE AND BLAME’’— grounds itself in a culture’s mainstream values. People or things (in this study, lifestyles and products) that purport to demonstrate or embody currently favored values are praised and thus reinforced in epideictic rhetoric, and those out of favor and perceived as nonmainstream in common culture are criticized. Chaim Perelman and Lucie...

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A new educational power electronics laboratory based on state-of-the-art tools and industrial-grade platforms is presented in this paper. The developed laboratory, which is built based upon prior theoretical knowledge and background of the students in power electronics, combines the sophisticated Texas Instruments (TI)’s hardware tools with MATLAB/Simulink software tools to design, test, and ra...

Limitations in communication modality and interactivity influence the use of language in an online environment, and conversely, language may be adapted to compensate for the online constraints. This is significant for participants in online learning environments (OLEs) who rely on written verbalization to achieve their educational objectives. Discourse analysis provides a means for understandin...

Developing categorization schemes involves discovering structures in the world that support a learner's goals. Existing models of category learning, such as ex emplar and prototype models, neglect the role of goals in shaping conceptual organization. Here, a clustering ap proach is discussed that reflects the joint influences of the environment and goals in directing category acquisition. Clust...

Abstract The modern concept of style is a complex one and difficult to map fully onto corresponding notion in ancient Greek thinking vocabulary. This paper sets out examine both the common understandings this term contemporary scholarship sensitivities what we may call stylistic phenomena – multi-levelled features that be conceptualized as characterizing ‘how’ opposed ‘what’. moves on show ways...