(What is a dedication to wellness but an indulgence of the self?) But one might also wonder, by the end of this book, what rhetorical resources are left for a positive conception of wellness.
After a disappointing few weeks in the polls, during which some of his most fervent supporters wondered if his fire was still alight, the president is determined to show that he is employing every mental, rhetorical and financial resource he has toward re-election.
This wasn't just a rhetorical switch; crucial resources were pulled off the hunt for Al Qaeda, which had attacked America, to prepare for the overthrow of Saddam, who hadn't.
It is important to note here that, with regard to financial resources, rhetorical ambivalence has proven to be successful in the mid-term as the budget for the project was finally approved by governmental authorities in fall 2009.
DOMA does have a defense, thanks to congressional Republicans — and the Obama Administration still enforces it — but that is different, in resources and rhetorical effect, from having the solicitor general of the United States stand before the Justices and make the case for it.
A variety of lexicogrammatical resources and rhetorical strategies have been deployed to support this objective.
The table illustrates the registerial variation across fields of activity in the deployment of the resources of rhetorical complexing.
Having sketched the resources of rhetorical complexing, I can now return to the analysis of Text 1 as an illustration of how elements of contextual structure are realized semantically.
Before I discuss the rhetorical-relational organization of our text as a semantic unit, let me just briefly survey the resources of rhetorical complexing: see Figure 8. Figure 7 Graphic conventions used in the analysis of texts in terms of rhetorical complexes.
