this paper is intended to explain the difference between rhyme of the qur'anic text (fāsila) and rhythmic prose (saj‘). according to the earlier scholars, fāsila signifies the last word of the qur'anic verse and saj‘ is the agreement of the final words in prose which rhyme the same, at least in the final letter. besides giving a definition of saj‘ and fāṣila, this research touches upon the view...

Hicri üçüncü yüzyıla kadar söz sanatları manasına gelen bedî‘ kavramı, sonrasında me‘ânî ve beyân ilimlerini de kapsayacak şekilde belâgat ilmi ile eş anlamlı kullanılmıştır. yedinci varıldığında bu terimin günümüzdeki şekliyle, sözü güzelleştiren edebi sanatların üst başlığı olarak kullanıldığı görülmektedir. Bu çalışmada modern dönemde telif edilen Arap belâgati eserlerinden on tanesinin ilmi...

This chapter defines professional communication in intercultural contexts. It presents a workable model of culture, connects that model to rhetoric, and provides a method to analyze rhetorics and cultures in intercultural contexts. It also contextualizes the model of intercultural rhetorical research in prevailing paradigms of rhetoric and professional communication, strongly criticizing the lo...

Video games have been created about political and social issues since the early days of the medium. In recent years, many developers are rapidly creating and releasing games in response to current events. These games are being referred to as newsgames. With an increasing number of people citing the internet as their primary news source, it would appear that newsgames could become an important p...

Scholarly inquiries into communalism in South Asia have often exclusively focused on politically constructed religious and ethnic identity categories. This article challenges these assumptions by arguing that territoriality and the designation of homelands played an important, but largely unrecognized, role in developing social and political boundaries in the region. By analyzing the writings o...

A lot of discourses about the so-called « screen civilization » pay little attention to screens. They usually speculate about a supposed cyberspace instead of examining the visible forms of effective communication. This paper looks at what is visible or invisible on computer-supported medias. To do this, it considers both the semiotics of visible signs displayed on the screen and the metasemiot...

In this article Paul’s argumentation is analysed from the perspective of sophistic rhetoric. In the first section the question is discussed what it means to label Paul’s rhetoric in his Letter to the Galatians ‘sophistic.’ To that end, an attempt is made to reconstruct the view of a contemporary critical reader who did not share Paul’s presuppositions and who was well acquainted with the discus...

In this paper we discuss several different perspectives on persuasion and behavior change and consider how they may be used to inform the design of serious games and other digital media for sustainability. These perspectives include the classic “information deficit” model of persuasion, as well as two more recent perspectives: “procedural rhetoric”, and “emergent dialogue”. We discuss how these...