The Influence of Rhetorical Strategies and Devices on Cohesion and Coherence in Loving Your Enemies - Softcover

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Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: Sehr Gut, University of Graz (Institut für Anglistik), course: Linguistics Proseminar (Textlinguistics), language: English, abstract: The analysis focuses on the written script of Loving Your Enemies by Martin Luther King and examines the validity of the personal hypothesis that rhetorical devices have a significant influence on cohesion and coherence in King's speech and that the latter textual notions, cohesion and coherence, can lead to an emotional and positive response by the audience. Due to the great length of Loving Your Enemies, the paper includes some charts to support a more compact and focused analysis.