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Invitational rhetoric – rhetoric involving "an invitation to understanding as a means to create a relationship rooted in quality, immanent value, and self-determination" (Foss and Griffin, 1995); it emphasizes the relationship between the speaker and freedoms of the audience to make decisions for themselves in order to promote equality.
Also called humanocentrism. The practice, conscious or otherwise, of regarding the existence and concerns of human beings as the central fact of the universe. This is similar, but not identical, to the practice of relating all that happens in the universe to the human experience. To clarify, the first position concludes that the fact of human existence is the point of universal existence; the ...
Emphatic consonant, member of a phonological category of consonants in Semitic languages; Prosodic stress, speaking an important word more loudly or slowly so that it stands out
List of tautological place names – Toponyms composed of synonyms; Logorrhea (psychology) – Communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness; Purple prose – Prose text that is overwritten in a way that disrupts a narrative flow; RAS syndrome – Acronym redundantly coupled with its word(s)
Pragmatism emphasizes the connection between thought and action. Applied fields like public administration, [50] political science, [51] leadership studies, [52] international relations, [53] conflict resolution, [54] and research methodology [55] have incorporated the tenets of pragmatism in their field. Often this connection is made using ...
In this kind of approach, which emphasizes the relevance of history to the present, things that do not seem relevant receive little attention, which results in a misleading portrayal of the past. "Whig history" or "whiggishness" are often used as synonyms for presentism particularly when the historical depiction in question is teleological or ...
Nondualism includes a number of philosophical and spiritual traditions that emphasize the absence of fundamental duality or separation in existence. [1] This viewpoint questions the boundaries conventionally imposed between self and other, mind and body, observer and observed, [2] and other dichotomies that shape our perception of reality.
[4] Eccentricity, however, "emphasizes the idea of divergence from the usual or customary; idiosyncrasy implies a following of one's particular temperament or bent especially in trait, trick, or habit; the former often suggests mental aberration, the latter, strong individuality and independence of action". [4]