Initial discourse-based tasks help students to recognise a two-part rhetorical pattern, in which the writer first concedes the possibility of criticism and then moves to neutralise its potentially negative effect.
James pressed record, and Biederman launched into an impression of Hillary Clinton in the cheesy rhetorical pattern the "Chapo" guys call "Democrat voice".
The teacher found out Ryan could not identify the sequence of ideas clearly so that he had difficulties to associate it with rhetorical pattern.
As basic requirements, professional sci-tech translators need in-depth knowledge of the source language (including an awareness of its specific rhetorical patterns and discourse structures), a good eye for detail, native or near-native competence in the target language, a flair for writing, and highly developed information-gathering skills.
The outcomes suggested that rhetorical patterns have a significant effect on written communication.
Most importantly, this is an exploratory study with a small corpus size, and attempting to remark on all aspects of rhetorical patterns in the three texts would seem to risk inappropriate generalization.
This again relates to item (6d) in the spectrum of invocations set out in Fig. 2, where rhetorical patterns can be used as resources for implying an attitude, as well as item (3) where so-called constitutive intertextuality, or what (Lemke 1995) refers to as compositional practices within thematic formations, allow comparison-contrast and evaluative stances to be fore-fronted.
Studies of imagery, rhetorical patterns, wordplay, and still more gave support to the movement.
The modes of interactivity it deploys are capable of enabling empowerment and enacting rhetorical patterns of control.
This is not embroidery in the sense of trivial embellishment, but the delicate stitching of the syntax into various rhetorical patterns.
