Search for dissertations about: "rhetoric"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 148 swedish dissertations containing the word rhetoric.

  2. 16. Waves of fashion : The consuming production of management control

    Author : Andreas Backlund Björke; Ulf Johanson; Stefan Tengblad; Mälardalens högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Management control; SMEs; fashion; happiness; rhetoric; aesthetics; theorization; innovation; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

    Abstract : The responsiveness of organizational leaders regarding suggestions related to various managerial techniques has led to the coinage of the ‘management fashion’ idiom. It has been convincingly argued that phenomena like management control systems are prone to trends, and that such trends permeate into the daily life of managers through the use of persuasive rhetoric. READ MORE

  4. 17. Speaking Other Times : Hannah Arendt and the Temporality of Politics

    Author : Frida Buhre; Ann Öhrberg; Patrik Mehrens; Peg Birmingham; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rhetorical Theory; Hannah Arendt; Temporality; Political Imaginaries; Continental Philosophy; Rhetoric; Retorik; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : Political rhetoric frequently utilizes imaginaries of time. Ideas of an eternally sanctioned principle, a historical tradition, a future to come, or a radical change in the present are all part of the temporal toolkit of political rhetoric. READ MORE

  5. 18. A Beautiful Failure : The Event of Death and Rhetorical Disorder in the Gospel according to Mark

    Author : Joel Kuhlin; Bibelvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Death of Jesus; he Gospel according to Mark; Mk 15:6–39; Papias of Hierapolis; Progymnasmata; rhetoric; failure hamartêma ; narrative διήγησις; diêgêsis ; taxis τάξις ; lexis λέξις ; ; disorder; social death; The Logic of Sense; Gilles Deleuze; event; ataxia; diêgêma διήγημα ; chreia χρεία ; parataxis; paradox; parable; Franz Kafka; Der Prozeß; Josef K.; suspension-execution σταυροῦν: staurôn ; suspension-pole σταυρός: stauros ; Aelius Theon; dianoia διάνοια ; Francis Bacon;

    Abstract : Is there beauty in rhetorical failure? This study is an exploration of disorder and death in the Gospel according to Mark (Mk). With a surviving fragment from the second-century theologian Papias of Hierapolis, the early reception of Mk locates insights into the composition of Jesus’s death, especially through the concepts of ataxia and rhetorical failure. READ MORE

  6. 19. Heritage planning in Malmö and Rotterdam during the 2000’s : A cross-contextual analysis of arguments, metaphors and figures of thought

    Author : Olof Woltil; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Heritage planning; Conservation; Built heritage; Rhetoric; Metaphor analysis; Argumentation analysis; Figures of thought; Malmö; Rotterdam;

    Abstract : A wide variety of scholars acknowledge heritage planning as a widespread phenomenon. However, to what extent it is widespread is debatable. READ MORE

  7. 20. Libanius' Declamations 9 and 10

    Author : Mikael Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Libanius; Pseudo-Hermogenes; Themistocles; Neocles; Herodotus; Aelius Aristides; De inventione; rhetoric; declamation; judicial oratory; prooimia; diegesis; pistis; epilogos; basis; apokeryxis;

    Abstract : Of the Antiochene orator Libanius, active in the 4th century A.D., we have an unusually large quantity of literary products preserved. The works attributed to him include among others speeches, progymnasmata, and letters. READ MORE