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  2. Constitutive rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    Political speeches, manifestos, and resistance movements participate in this type of discourse, to establish an identity and a call to action within that identity. [10] A leader's speech calling a "nation" to war establishes a national identity within the discourse or text. A feminist speaking on women's right establishes the identity of the ...

  3. Martin Joos - Wikipedia

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    Martin Joos (1907–1978) was an American linguist and professor of German. [1] He spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and also served at the University of Toronto and as a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta, the University of Belgrade, and the University of Edinburgh.

  4. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [ 2 ] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration , or telling; description , or picturing; exposition , or explaining; and argument , or ...

  5. Dialogue in writing - Wikipedia

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    Dialogue is usually identified by the use of quotation marks and a dialogue tag, such as 'she said'. [5] "This breakfast is making me sick," George said. 'George said' is the dialogue tag, [6] which is also known as an identifier, an attributive, [7] a speaker attribution, [8] a speech attribution, [9] a dialogue tag, and a tag line. [10]

  6. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Accumulatio – the emphasis or summary of previously made points or inferences by excessive praise or accusation.; Actio – canon #5 in Cicero's list of rhetorical canons; traditionally linked to oral rhetoric, referring to how a speech is given (including tone of voice and nonverbal gestures, among others).

  7. Dialogue - Wikipedia

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    The term dialogue stems from the Greek διάλογος (dialogos, ' conversation '); its roots are διά (dia, ' through ') and λόγος (logos, ' speech, reason '). The first extant author who uses the term is Plato, in whose works it is closely associated with the art of dialectic. [3] Latin took over the word as dialogus. [4]

  8. Dialog act - Wikipedia

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    Dialog acts are a type of speech act. Dialog act recognition, also known as spoken utterance classification, is an important part of spoken language understanding. AI inference models or statistical models are used to recognize and classify dialog acts.

  9. Audience design - Wikipedia

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    In contrast with audience design, which can be defined as a responsive style-shift where the speaker responds to specific factors of the speech context, referee design is characterised as an initiative shift. In such situations, speakers may use styles associated with non-present social groups to signal hypothetical allegiances with these speakers.