Rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic – see Martianus Capella), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the capacities of writers or speakers needed to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. Aristotle defines rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion" and since mastery of the art was necessary for victory in a case at law; or for passage of proposals in the assembly; or for fame as a speaker in civic ceremonies; he calls …
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Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network · 27 April 2024 English
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weren’t for Israel, “Europe would be next.” Such rhetoric is a regurgitation of colonial ideology, seeking …
Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network · 27 April 2024
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were presented with an opportunity: Using the rhetoric of terrorism, Israel placed Gaza under a hermetic …
Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network · 27 April 2024 English
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Jerusalem: The Potential for Pushback Yara Hawari Rhetoric without action is insufficient, Yara Hawari argues …
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 26 April 2024 English
The Forum urges the governments of Canada, Denmark and Greenland to follow up and implement the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples following his country …
was informed about hate speech and stigmatizing rhetoric that associates Indigenous movements with illegal …
MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 25 April 2024 English
During the last ten years, several issues such as the Arab Spring, the emergence and spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the COVID-19 pandemic, oil price …
existential security threat because of its ideological rhetoric and arming of proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah … Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) virulent rhetoric about Jammu and Kashmir, becoming more aware of …
Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English
Keywords of the Datafied State is a collection of essays on concepts that are central to understanding the relationship between government and technology, and how it differs across geographies. Underlying …
Alam, “Majority World: Challenging the West’s Rhetoric of Democracy,” Amerasia Journal 34, no. 1 (January …
Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English
For instance, parents are not the only resi- dents burdened with the expense of municipal schools, because the whole 1 Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the …
from a discussion of 10 Bhuvaneswari Raman, “The Rhetoric of Transparency and Its Reality: democracy, which …
Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English
counterdata in favor of data practic- es that primarily serve their own communities.22 Nonetheless, the rhetoric around counterdata is still constrained by the construct of the statistical dataset — an inherently …
serve their own communities.22 Nonetheless, the rhetoric around counterdata is still constrained by the …
RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 24 April 2024 English
Readership and Consumption: Potential Effects on Society Certainly, the risk of foreign influence is not limited to vernacular news formats; articles with political undertones can exist in all languages and …
had themes that were perceived to toe pro-China rhetoric, such as China’s unification and the duties of …
RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 23 April 2024 English
Conscription in Myanmar: Is the Military Junta Losing Control? By Sandeep Singh SYNOPSIS The recent activation of an existing conscription law in Myanmar by the ruling military junta seeks to …
terrorists” and to crush internal rebellions. This rhetoric flies in the face of evidence showing sustained …
