Submitted by William Justo Figueiro (williamjf) on 2015-07-09T22:47:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 28b.pdf: 928828 bytes, checksum: 03bf0090fd6d0473043b76c6366d0c61 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-09T22:47:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 28b.pdf: 928828 bytes, checksum: 03bf0090fd6d0473043b76c6366d0c61 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-22 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente estudo busca investigar as relações retóricas que emergem do encaixe de segmentos narrativos na organização macroestrutural de notícias de divulgação científica (DC) dirigidas aos públicos infantil e adulto. A organização narrativa é analisada segundo os postulados de Adam (2011) e Charaudeau (2008b); a organização retórica macroestrutural dos textos, por sua vez, é estudada de acordo com a Rhetorical Structure Theory – RST. (MANN; THOMPSON, 1988). O corpus do estudo é composto de 15 notícias de DC voltadas ao público infantil, publicadas na revista Ciência Hoje das Crianças entre dezembro de 2004 e setembro de 2010, e de 15 notícias de DC direcionadas ao público adulto, veiculadas na revista Ciência Hoje, entre agosto de 2005 e julho de 2012. A metodologia empregada consiste na análise quantitativa da emergência de relações retóricas entre os segmentos narrativos encontrados nos corpora (infantil e adulto) e as demais porções textuais, bem como na análise qualitativa de alguns textos selecionados para exemplificar cada uma das relações retóricas encontradas. Em seguida, é realizada uma análise comparativa entre os dados quantitativos provenientes das análises dos textos para crianças e dos textos para adultos. Assume-se que a esquematização de um texto é um processo de coconstrução, no qual o produtor, ao organizar seu plano textual, leva em consideração as características e conhecimentos de seu possível leitor e, a partir disso, lança mão de estratégias variadas para alcançar o fim discursivo pretendido e causar os efeitos desejados sobre o leitor. Dessa forma, conclui-se que a emergência recorrente de determinadas relações retóricas entre as narrativas encaixadas e as outras partes do texto revela estratégias do produtor textual para orientar a leitura e compreensão da notícia, tanto nos textos escritos para crianças quanto nos escritos para adultos. / This research aims to investigate the rhetorical relations which emerge from the insertion of narrative segments in the macrostructural organization of scientific popularization news directed to children and adults. The narrative organization is analyzed according to Adam’s (2011) and Charaudeau’s (2008b) postulates; the rhetorical organization of the texts, in turn, is studied according to Rhetorical Structure Theory – RST. (MANN; THOMPSON, 1988). The research corpus is composed of 15 scientific popularization news intended for children, published in the magazine Ciência Hoje das Crianças, and of 15 scientific popularization news directed to adults, issued in the magazine Ciência Hoje. The methodology consists of a quantitative analysis of the emergency of rhetorical relations between the narrative segments found in the corpora (texts for children and texts for adults) and other textual portions, as well as of a qualitative analysis of some selected texts in order to exemplify each one of the rhetorical relations found. Then, a comparative analysis is done between the quantitative data resultant from the analysis of the texts for children and of the texts for adults. We assume that the schematization of a text is a process of co-construction, in which the producer, when organizes the text plan, takes into consideration the characteristics and knowledge of his/her possible reader and, from this, resorts to different strategies in order to achieve the discursive aim intended and cause the desired effect over the reader. Thus, we conclude that the recurrent emergency of certain rhetorical relations between the inserted narratives and the other portions of the text reveals strategies of the textual producer in order to guide the reading and comprehension of the new, both in texts written forchildren and in texts written for adults.

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o uso das metáforas como figuras retóricas e analisar o uso das metáforas conceituais nos editoriais selecionados dos jornais: O Estado de S.Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, Gazeta do povo, O Globo e Gaúcha Zero Hora. Essa análise parte da fundamentação teórica tem como base as metáforas como figuras retóricas de acordo com os preceitos elaborados por Perelman & Tyteca (2005 [1958]) em seu Tratado da argumentação - A nova retórica e as metáforas conceituais de acordo com os preceitos elaborados por Lakoff & Johnson (2002 [1980]) em Metáforas da vida cotidiana. Procura-se, nesse sentido, observar como o orador/editorialista faz a aplicação metafórica em seus textos, a fim de entender sua finalidade argumentativa para com o auditório/leitor. A análise do texto compreende a identificação das diferentes metáforas como figuras retóricas e como metáforas conceituais ambas estão examinadas em nossa pesquisa teórica. Demonstrar a operacionalização das teorias de Perelman & Tyteca e Lakoff & Johnson nos permite apontar como é possível criar condições técnicas-científicas para unir essas duas teorias em uma pesquisa das diferentes metáforas nas diversas construções linguísticas dos editoriais de jornais on-line. / The aim of the study is to analyze the use of metaphors as figures of language and to analyze the use of conceptual metaphors in selected newspaper editorials: O Estado de S.Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, Gazeta do Povo, O Globo and Gaúcha Zero Hora. This analyzis is based in metaphors as rhetorical figures in accordance to Perelman & Tyteca (1958) in their The new Rhetoric A treatise on Argumentation, and the conceptual metaphors in accordance to Lakoff & Johnson (1980) in Metaphors We Live By. In this regard, we want to observe how the orator/editorialist makes the metaphorical application in their texts, in order to understand their argumentative purpose towards the audience/reader. The revision of the text includes the identification of the different metaphors as rhetorical figures and as conceptual metaphors based on our theoretical research. Therefore, we intend to demonstrate how it is possible to create technical-scientific conditions to unite these two theories (Perelman & Tyteca and Lakoff & Johnson in a research of the different metaphors in the diverse constructions linguistic of the editorials of online newspapers.

This thesis investigates the relationship between creative potential and the rhetorical structure of children&rsquo / s narratives. 44 middle school children (aged 12-15) were given a set of paper-pen activities including one divergent thinking test, one convergent thinking test and a story to be completed. Results of the divergent and convergent thinking tests were taken as the predictors to estimate the potential for creative thinking. Children were examined in terms of how they encode rhetorical relations in their writings. Whether a creative potential made a difference in children&rsquo / s writings in terms of rhetorical relations they used, and whether children within the same creative potential group used the same rhetorical relations in common were investigated. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) (Marcu, 2000 and Carlson and Marcu, 2001) was used in coding children&rsquo / s writings. It was found that children in the study interpreted story writing as an act of attribution. This result is contrary to Marcu et.al (1999b), who found the elaboration-additional relation as the most frequent relation in their corpora. The study also found that there was an inverse relationship between the convergent thinking scores and the number of satellites (an EDU (elementary discourse unit) playing an auxilliary role for a text in question) for the 7th graders. Finally, it was found that high quartile (highest scorers in the study, top 25%) convergent thinkers were able to construct a narrative element with few number of EDUs and few number of discourse relation types.

In terms of structure, style, content and intended audience, Genre Analysis 58, this thesis presents a rhetorical analysis of the plenary address as a genre. Four examples of the opening plenary were analyzed because they represent the opening plenary lecture-keynote speech type, the most common presented at conferences: Mina Shaughnessy and the teaching of writing, Keynote address, Literacy after the revolution and The uneasy partnership between grammar and writing instruction.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Interpretive textual analysis, informed by a feminist perspective, is applied to five independent films written and directed by female filmmakers in order to understand to what extent the rhetorical construction of motherhood as presented in the films deviates from or supports a patriarchal Western vision. This study provides a rich textual analysis of Amreeka (2009), Frozen River (2008), Waitress (2006), The Dead Girl (2006), and Lovely and Amazing (2001); five films that each considers the role of contemporary mothering as a central part of its plot. Each film has been distributed within ten years of the inception of this study, is considered an independent film, has received some degree of critical acclaim, and is written and directed by a female filmmaker. Using a feminist critical interpretive lens, this study investigates the public and private sphere identification of the mothers, the mother-child relationships, and the family systems that work to unveil a vision of motherhood in contemporary independent film and identify the extent to which this vision challenges or adheres to traditional representations. The readings of these films rely on theoretical insights of feminist film criticism and feminist theory. In addition, feminist rhetorical perspectives provide the framework to reveal the broader cultural implications of the representation of contemporary motherhood in public discourse. The analysis reveals a subversive reading of contemporary mothering characterized by the rejection of domesticity and other traditional mothering ideologies. Informed by resistance theory, the findings suggest the female filmmakers utilize the symbolic inversion tactic as a tool to resist their subordinate status. The subversive discourses give voice to female filmmakers attempting to negotiate power in a traditionally patriarchal forum by invoking a rhetoric of resistance. However, the rhetorical construction of the “indie” mother is characterized by maternal sacrifice and maternal autonomy which ultimately forces women to negotiate their mothering identity in relation to the hegemonic childrearing model of intensive mothering. The production of contradictory messages illustrates an attempt to adapt to existing conditions rather than transform the patriarchal system suggesting that independent film is a dynamic medium that both reflects hegemonic discourse while remaining open to ideological variance.

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This research examines the history of a small Florida agricultural community over the course of the twentieth century from a rhetorical perspective in order to understand the technological and communicative transitions that governed the development of American agricultural production. By examining archival and oral histories, this research will add to our understandings of how written and oral communications temper the relationships and social situations of an agricultural community, including the knowledge-making and technological adaptation resulting from communications within the community and with outside institutions and entities. Agricultural villages are not isolated entities, but rather sites of multiple rhetorical situations, and farmers do not farm alone, but inside an ecosystem of networked knowledges, practices, and traditions. Thus, the history of a singular farming community may serve as a rhetorical microcosm of modern American agriculture's evolution over the course of the twentieth century, and provide some mindfulness concerning the social, technological, and natural ecologies that act and interact within modern farming communities. This dissertation will use rhetorical genre theory and ideas of local literacies to examine the written and oral discourses that run through these ecologies for the purpose of tracing the relationships between the sponsors of agricultural ideas and technologies and the local farmers who interpreted, employed, and modified them. In addition, this project purports to add to digital history-making research through the construction of an historical archival website to which community members can add their voices. The Samsula Historical Archive creates an online nexus where community members can document, organize, and preserve the history of the community, offering a portal supporting multiple narratives and perspectives. Each family has its own stories and perspectives on historical happenings; by bringing these together in one databased location, the layers and interconnections will become clearer and perhaps stimulate further memories and insights. A discussion of the rhetorical choices faced in constructing such an artifact may also help future researchers embarking on such a project.

Using the methodological approach of Socio-rhetorical Analysis, this study focuses on understanding the phrase in 1 John 3:8, “the works of the devil,” from the standpoint of the original audience. A comprehensive investigation of this phrase contributes toward theological discourse about the Johannine understanding of the devil/evil and cosmic conflict. By juxtaposing the results of a number of temporarily bounded studies, the meaning of the phrase, “the works of the devil,” is seen in its historical, cultural, and literary context. The literary context of the phrase under investigation involves two pericopes at the center of 1 John: 3:4-10, and 3:11-18, where the author’s cosmic eschatological theology is presented in a chiastic climax. Inner texture analysis of these pericopes reveals complex rhetorical transitions that focus attention on the destruction of the works of the devil. Repetitive-progressive texture charts and discourse analysis of these pericopes uncover the key terms and relationships of these terms, contributing toward an understanding of the meaning of the phrase, “the works of the devil.” Scribal inter-texture analysis compares the use of these terms in other biblical and extra-biblical literature, including an original analysis of 1QS 4:15-25. In short, the works of the devil, according to 1 John and the Gospel of John, supplemented by historical evidence of ancient culture and writings, would have been seen by early Johannine believers as equated with that which leads to death. Examples show that this could be physical death, as in the example of Cain, or of disease, or spiritual death, as in the example of idols which represent unbelief, evil work, false approaches to God, and disobedience to God’s commands. While the devil’s works can be summarized as bringing death—both physical (disease and deformity, social chaos, mental chaos) and spiritual (unbelief, hatred),the Son of God appeared to give life (1 John 4:9). The appearing of the Son of God is seen to result in works and characteristics that are the opposite of those associated with the sin of the devil, thus nullifying or destroying them. / Christian Spirituality Church History and Missiology / D. Litt et Phil. (Biblical Studies)

On the 12:th of April 2011, the Swedish tabloid magazine Expressen publishes a story, claiming that Ola Lindholm, presenter of critically acclaimed TV-show “Wild Kids” has been suspected and apprehended on cocaine allegations. The serious allegation called for Ola Lindholm to defend himself against the allegations. His only public response was a blog-post where he claimed his innocence, albeit with some reservations.   The purpose of this paper is to analyze Lindholm’s rhetorical defense. By applying Benoit’s theory of image restoration, the stasis theory and the rhetorical situation my goal is to find what strategies Lindholm’s defense consists of.   The analyses showed that Lindholm used four different kinds of image restoration strategies. The most salient strategies consisted of bolstering and attacking the accuser. By applying a proposition analysis it was possible to find textual themes used to either undermine the tabloid Expressen's credibility or to mitigate his own actions.   The results also point out that ethos and image restoration strategies are closely intertwined.

Using the methodological approach of Socio-rhetorical Analysis, this study focuses on understanding the phrase in 1 John 3:8, “the works of the devil,” from the standpoint of the original audience. A comprehensive investigation of this phrase contributes toward theological discourse about the Johannine understanding of the devil/evil and cosmic conflict. By juxtaposing the results of a number of temporarily bounded studies, the meaning of the phrase, “the works of the devil,” is seen in its historical, cultural, and literary context. The literary context of the phrase under investigation involves two pericopes at the center of 1 John: 3:4-10, and 3:11-18, where the author’s cosmic eschatological theology is presented in a chiastic climax. Inner texture analysis of these pericopes reveals complex rhetorical transitions that focus attention on the destruction of the works of the devil. Repetitive-progressive texture charts and discourse analysis of these pericopes uncover the key terms and relationships of these terms, contributing toward an understanding of the meaning of the phrase, “the works of the devil.” Scribal inter-texture analysis compares the use of these terms in other biblical and extra-biblical literature, including an original analysis of 1QS 4:15-25. In short, the works of the devil, according to 1 John and the Gospel of John, supplemented by historical evidence of ancient culture and writings, would have been seen by early Johannine believers as equated with that which leads to death. Examples show that this could be physical death, as in the example of Cain, or of disease, or spiritual death, as in the example of idols which represent unbelief, evil work, false approaches to God, and disobedience to God’s commands. While the devil’s works can be summarized as bringing death—both physical (disease and deformity, social chaos, mental chaos) and spiritual (unbelief, hatred),the Son of God appeared to give life (1 John 4:9). The appearing of the Son of God is seen to result in works and characteristics that are the opposite of those associated with the sin of the devil, thus nullifying or destroying them. / Christian Spirituality Church History and Missiology / D. Litt et Phil. (Biblical Studies)