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McCormick, Samuel – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2008
As a rhetorical figure, the example is constitutively split between the structural vocations of the Greek "paradeigma" (emphasizing illumination and belonging) and the Latin "exemplum" (emphasizing detachment and exclusion). This bifurcation enables the example to function as a strategic resource of ambiguity. Christine de…
Descriptors: War, Figurative Language, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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Olson, Lester C. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1990
Investigates the underlying rhetorical functions of how Benjamin Franklin used the medal to praise the national characters of France and the United States in those two countries, while he also used it to influence government policy in Malta and to vindicate himself from criticism in England. (KEH)
Descriptors: Art Expression, Communication Research, Foreign Countries, International Relations