His speech is radically dehumanised, stripped of any references to anything outside his closed rhetorical system (bar wicked America).
In "Song of Myself," Whitman's entire rhetorical system grinds to a halt after a child asks him, simply, "What is the grass?" In "Bunting," Gregerson's young daughter sees some horrific news footage of Kurdish children dead after a chemical attack: "They're sleeping," said Emma, "they're very tired," as the footage came on again, child after child in the chalk embrace of chemical death.
In "Song of Myself," Whitman's entire rhetorical system grinds to a halt after a child asks him, simply, "What is the grass?" In "Bunting," Gregerson's young daughter sees some horrific news footage of Kurdish children dead after a chemical attack: "They're sleeping," said Emma, "they're very tired," as the footage came on again, child after child in the chalk embrace of chemical death.
Radical in its unoriginality, Kim II's text defies time, an effect heightened by the dehumanized language and stripping out of references to anything outside his closed rhetorical system (bar the timeless abuse hurled at evil imperialists in America).
We can call these systems RHETORICAL RELATION TYPE and RHETORICAL RELATION TAXIS, respectively.
Based on this holistic assessment of different maintenance strategies and systems, rhetorical question such as "which maintenance strategy(ies) are required in optimally maintaining the RVS machine when used in the mining industries?" need to be answered.
We need practical voices to help arrive at a workable system, not rhetorical flourishes designed solely to make political points.
The system of rhetorical relation taxis (or "nuclearity") is the contrast between 'nucleus-satellite' relations, the hypotactic type, and 'multi-nuclear', the paratactic type.
The system of rhetorical relation type covers the logico-semantic types identified by Halliday in his work on the grammar (e.g. Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004: Ch. 7; Halliday and Matthiessen 2006: Ch. 3).
But Fehr, asked if a prolonged impasse could lead the union to challenge the N.H.L.'s salary cap system itself, raised the rhetorical ante.
