Multimodal rhetorical figures

Rhetoricians have, for millennia, catalogued a set of persuasive techniques called rhetorical figures, but so far, they have examined them almost exclusively in the verbal modalities – i.e. in the written and spoken word. This paper shows how, in embodied contexts, figures also draw from bodily moda...

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Main Author: Guilbeault , Douglas Richard
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/53978