The purpose of this study is to expand on Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin's work in Remediation regarding the repurposing of older, successful rhetorical tools and technologies for use in newer mediums. The study ...

Extrapolating from theories of ancient and modern rhetoricians, particularly those of Mikhail Bakhtin, who insisted on the primacy of dialogical context as sign and on the importance of sign for creating meaning, this ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of music therapy with and without sibling participation on the social interaction skills of children with Isolated Lissencephaly Sequence (ILS). The research questions ...

Joseph Campbell claims fairy tales, legends, and myths are phrases from an image-language that express metaphysical, psychological, and sociological truths. My thesis presents a study of Tim Burton's films using the hero's ...

In the last decade, the technological development of real time online communication via a personal computer and a modern has created a discourse environment that is witnessing rapid changes and mutations in language usage. ...

Classical rhetoric's five parts consist of invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. The first three now enjoy privileged status in modern rhetorics, whereas the latter two have all but disappeared from view. ...

Although presidential campaigns have always used technology to interact with the American electorate, recent developments in new media have raised the level of that interaction to an intensity and significance never seen ...

This research fuses humanist concepts of language with chaos theory to move toward a rhetoric of openness. Like other dynamic systems, metaphoric/poetic language generates concepts and discourse which interact with each ...

The middle ages privileged a patriarchal view of women as having no independent role in society, functioning merely as adjuncts to the dominant men in the culture. In the cycle plays of N-Town, Chester, York, and Towneley ...

Eighteenth-century playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan employed rhetorical strategies to enlighten and entertain. Sheridan's mimetic, innovative artistry engages audiences in a revival of wit and simultaneously uncovers ...