Aristotle's Rethoric is the most ancient work exposing a technique to persuade, to promote adhesion by means of reason that could be more or less logical or credible. In order to argue in favour or against something, it ...

In an analysis on the episode of Laocoon's death, inserted into the account of the Trojan horse, in the Aeneid, we highlight certain meaning effects achieved from the use of some rhetorical figures. In the examples, ...

Firstly, this paper aims to analyze how verbal and visual modes contribute to build two basic components of cartoons: the referenced situation and the fictional situation. Secondly, it aims to unravel the semiotics of this ...

In this paper, we research rhetorical patterns from a musicological and computational standpoint. First, a theoretical examination of what constitutes a rhetorical pattern is conducted. Out of that examination, which ...

A través de una lectura atenta de algunos pasajes del Ensayo sobre el entendimiento humano, el presente estudio analiza la manera en que el filósofo empirista John Locke, al tratar de desterrar a la retórica y la figuración ...

Othello, the Moor of Venice is one of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies. The play is concerned with the hero's progressive downfall, which might be said to comprise three phases: apogee, breakdown, and guilt. Othello's ...