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Dominique Labbé and others
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqaf032, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf032
Published: 25 April 2025
.... On the other hand, the generated speeches employ less verbs, pronouns, and adverbs and include, in mean, too standardized sentences. Considering some words, one can observe that ChatGPT tends to overuse “to must” (devoir), ‘to continue’ or the lemma ‘we’ (nous). Moreover, GPT underuses...
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Petra Vodová and Petr Voda
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 2, April 2025, Pages 354–378, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsae027
Published: 08 August 2024
... University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract The complexity of parliamentary speeches is usually interpreted as an MP’s electoral strategy. We take the prism of parliamentary specialization and connect it to the use...
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Victoria O’Gorman and Peter Bull
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 354–377, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaa006
Published: 10 April 2020
... and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract This study was focussed on 11 rhetorical devices used to invite collective applause in speeches...
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Alberto Alesina and others
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 86, Issue 2, March 2019, Pages 457–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy036
Published: 27 July 2018
... of parliament appointed in Sicily, particularly from the parties that traditionally oppose the Mafia. Organized crime Electoral violence Political speeches Voting K42 D72 Politics and Mafia are two powers on the same territory; either they make war or they reach an agreement. —Paolo Borsellino...
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Hanna Bäck and Marc Debus
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 73–102, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsx014
Published: 07 June 2017
.... This should be especially likely when MPs are directly elected and have incentives to create a personal platform. The characteristics of the German electoral system allow for evaluating this argument. By analysing 9824 speeches in Bundestag debates focusing on economic issues and 8357 speeches held...
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Published: 03 July 2014
... as titres distinctifs. Throughout the century, French lodges adopted a specific title for their assembly. By analyzing hundreds of lodge speeches that were delivered on festive occasions, this chapter shows that the prerevolutionary decades underwent a qualitative shift in masonic thinking about...
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Published: 15 December 2005
...This chapter examines domestic policy appeals. The chapter begins by presenting summary statistics for all nationally televised discretionary speeches from the presidential administrations of Eisenhower through Clinton. These summary data establish for a broad range of policy areas basic patterns...
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Published: 15 July 2011
...This chapter examines the role of the Music Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland as the scientific speech venue of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution. It discusses the role of speeches in spreading scientific knowledge and explains that speeches at the Music Hall were regulated to ensure that science...
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Published: 03 October 2013
...This chapter uses considerations of genre and of the different audiences that Libanius addressed to establish that his correspondence and speeches are not equally “public” texts; in order to do this, the chapter also attempts to refute the common assumption that letters from antiquity should...
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Published: 08 February 2012
... on the center stage of Parliament, the debating chamber itself. Some members emerged with their reputations enhanced by the power of their oratory, commanding attention and the presence of the House, while others singularly failed and were booed off the stage. They failed through rambling speech, poor diction...
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Published: 05 February 2019
...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book discusses a project based on the E. H. Gombrich Lectures given at the Warburg Institute in 2014. The author had become fascinated with the tradition of boys performing emotional speeches in women's voices in schools...
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Published: 06 March 2017
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Published: 06 March 2017
...The great number of set speeches in Thucydides’ work reflects the importance of the art of persuasion in his world, but also exhibits an awareness of the limitations of that art. Far from suggesting straightforward explanations, in their multifarious, dynamic relation to their narrative contexts...
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Published: 06 March 2017
... Cassius Dio Kelly G Pazdernik C Herodotus Adshead K Kantakouzenos J Kaldellis A Romilly J de Alexiad of Anna Komnene Dionysius of Halicarnassus John Kinnamos John Tzetze Komnene A Leo the Deacon Turquois E late antiquity Procopius intertextuality siege accounts pre-battle speeches...
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Published: 08 January 2019
... in relation to the overall strategies of the speeches concerned. Finally, it highlights some key factors affecting the compositional and presentational choices made by orators as well as the extent to which orators modelled their self-presentation strategies on those of their political seniors (or indeed...
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Published: 08 January 2019
...Chapter 30 examines Demosthenes’ Funeral Oration (Epitaphios), Erotikos or Erotic Essay, prologues (prooimia) or rhetorical openings of political speeches, and six letters—works that have often been relegated...
Book
Published online: 08 January 2019
Published in print: 22 November 2018
... to explore the many facets of the man’s life, work, and time. It gives particular weight to elucidating the setting and the contexts of his activity and some key themes that the speeches deal with. It thereby illustrates the interplay and mutual influence between the rhetoric and the environment from which...
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Published online: 03 March 2015
Published in print: 28 July 2011
... speeches and newspaper articles, and the anti-imperialist writings of Mark Twain, this book assesses the attitudes of Americans and the moralistic rhetoric that governed national and international debates over America's global mission at the turn into the twentieth century. It offers a reading both...
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Published online: 03 October 2011
Published in print: 16 June 2008
...Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public? Why have presidential utterances fallen from the rousing speeches of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, and FDR to a series...
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Published online: 23 July 2020
Published in print: 08 September 2020
... is the only one, I believe, that fully takes into account what the Catilinarians are and the different audiences to which they are addressed.The book includes an attempt to identify the specific individuals who prompted Cicero to publish the speeches of his consulship (pp. 100 103) and also contains...