Simply speaking, "Language itself, in other words, is a political-linguistic-rhetorical construct" (Joseph, 2006, p. 9).
Denialists are well aware of the media ecosystem and construct rhetorical arguments to give the appearance of legitimate debate where none really exists.
Rhetorical complexes are constructed out of rhetorical relations — or logico-semantic relations — such as 'elaboration', 'background' and 'addition'f.
Othering is an established construct in rhetorical narrative surrounding hate speech [26], and the 'we-they' dichotomy has long been identified in racist discourse [27].
We know this was a choice, a conscious choice, because he is such a fine writer, a writer capable of producing literature, and because he has so often stirred us with beautifully constructed rhetorical concertos during the four and a half years since, Bryan-like, he burst upon the national scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention.
Drawing on a range of interviews with key stakeholders and an analysis of secondary materials, we find evidence of numerous forms of institutional work including theorizing, rhetorical appeals, mythologizing, constructing normative networks and educating.
In summary, Mr K does considerable rhetorical work which constructs his illness as worthy of attention and himself as not to blame, pre-empting any suggestion that consulting with minor respiratory symptoms is not appropriate.
To reiterate, the essential construct underlying Swales' rhetorical analysis is the "move", defined as "a text segment made up of a bundle of linguistic features, (lexical) meanings, propositional meanings, illocutionary forces, etc., which give the segment a uniform orientation and signal the content of discourse in it" (Nwogu 1997, 114).
Table 8 presents the Chinese rhetorical structures that learners chose to construct the pretest, posttest and transferring test.
This apparent softening on the abortion issue, however rhetorical, has allowed for a resurgence of the "consistent ethic of life" construct, now being aggressively proposed by Catholic liberals as the proper Catholic approach to issues.
In constructing his rhetorical argument in favor of a limited freedom of the will, Erasmus as a skilled rhetorician consciously chose to pursue one particular rhetorical mode, the deliberative.
