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Lying, Misleading And What Is Said, By Jennifer M. Saul, Melissa MacAulay, Robert J. Stainton 
Western University
Lying, Misleading And What Is Said, By Jennifer M. Saul, Melissa Macaulay, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
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Shinto And Buddhist Metaphors In Departures, Yoshiko Okuyama 
University of Nebraska Omaha
Shinto And Buddhist Metaphors In Departures, Yoshiko Okuyama
Journal of Religion & Film
Cinematic language is rich in examples of religious metaphors. One Japanese film that contains religious “tropes” (figurative language) is the 2008 human drama, Departures. This paper focuses on the analysis of religious metaphors encoded in select film shots, using semiotics as the theoretical framework for film analysis. The specific metaphors discussed in the paper are the Shinto view of death as defilement and Buddhist practices associated with the metaphor of the journey to the afterlife. The purpose of this paper is to augment the previous reviews of Departures by explicating these religious signs hidden in the film.
Wandering About: Analogy, Ambiguity And Humanistic Mathematics, William M. Priestley 
Claremont Colleges
Wandering About: Analogy, Ambiguity And Humanistic Mathematics, William M. Priestley
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
This article concerns the relationship between mathematics and language, emphasizing the role of analogy both as an expression of a mathematical property and as a source of productive ambiguity in mathematics. An historical discussion is given of the interplay between the notions of logos, litotes, and limit that has implications for our understanding and teaching of Dedekind cuts and, more generally, for a humanistic notion of the role of mathematics within liberal education.
Rahna Mckey Carusi Cv, Rahna M. Carusi 
Georgia State University
Disciplinary Permeations: Complicating The "Public" And The "Private" Dualism In Composition And Rhetoric, Erica E. Rogers 
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Disciplinary Permeations: Complicating The "Public" And The "Private" Dualism In Composition And Rhetoric, Erica E. Rogers
Dissertations & Theses, Department of English
As Composition and Rhetoric rose in disciplinary status and academic legitimacy the discourse practice of negation, the positioning of texts in oppositional binaries that set the “new” over the “old,” the “novel” over the “familiar,” became embedded in academic tradition, seeming to be an inherited part of scholarship instead of an individual’s rhetorical choice and deliberate ethos strategy. Negation, when one idea or set of ideas constructed by another is critiqued, advocated, and/or redeveloped by another scholar, is a discourse practice firmly established in the Rhetorical Tradition as part of Socratic dialogues, reappears in “modern rhetoric”, and remains ...
On Language, Discourse And Reality, Igor Spacenko 
Colgate University Libraries
On Language, Discourse And Reality, Igor Spacenko
Colgate Academic Review
In this paper, I explore the positive and negative implications of the power of language that stems from its role as a medium for both our perception and thought. My argument takes a form of a syllogism: because reality is defined by language and language is socially constructed, reality must be socially constructed. In order to support my argument, I draw on a variety of historical examples as well as ideas of notable thinkers whose works molded the western society, such as Plato, Darwin, Aristotle, W.E.B. Du Bois and Virginia Wolf. I show that language is both a ...
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Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School
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Heidi Feldman
Georgetown University Law Center
Erin Vachon
University of Rhode Island
Ryan Marcotte
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Kyle Young
Western Kentucky University
Joel Musser
California Polytechnic State University
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