Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

TL;DR: This paper used a corpus of 45 English-language advertisements and their translated Russian pairs to investigate what happens to rhetorical figures in the translation process and identified three broad translation strategies (transference, source-language-orientated and target-language orientated) and their implications discussed in detail.

TL;DR: In this paper, a rhetorical analysis of the character education policy of a school board in Ontario, Canada, provides an illustrative example of the method's contributions to the field of critical discourse analysis, and they identify rhetorical appeals of Character Matters! texts that aim to persuade the policy's audience to support a predominantly traditional approach to character education.

TL;DR: A computational theory of goal-directed stylistics that can be used in various applications, including machine translation, second-language instruction, and natural language generation is designed and implemented and grammars for both English and French are constructed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a cognitive model of metaphor that is active and directive and that accurately acknowledges the nature of metaphor as an heuristic and epistemic device, emphasizing the importance of explicitness and shared understanding according to communication theory.