The Art of Persuasion and the Book of Ruth: Literary Devices in the Persuasive Speeches of Ruth 1:6–18

Michael, Matthew

doi:10.1353/hbr.2015.0023

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“…In Ruth 3.9, for example, when Boaz asks, “Who are you?,” Ruth answers, “Spread the corner of your garment over me” (NIV). Ruth's request is a metaphorical way of asking for Boaz's protection (Michael 2015, 160–61). The use of repetition is also found in Ruth, as it is in Akan storytelling.…”

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Reading Ruth as an Akan Story: A Proposal for an Alternative Akan Mother-Tongue Translation of Ruth 1.1

Boaheng

2021

The Bible Translator

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One of the key steps in interpreting a biblical text is to identify its literary genre correctly. It is important for Bible translators to ensure that the translated text takes account of the genre of the source text and that an appropriate genre from the receptor culture is employed. The book of Ruth is generally recognized as a story. Yet, the translation of Ruth 1.1 into three Akan dialects—Asante, Akuapem, and Fante—does not introduce what follows in the book as a story and so Akan readers may not correctly interpret Ruth as a story. It is against this backdrop that this paper examines storytelling elements in the book of Ruth through a discourse analysis and then offers an alternative Akan translation of Ruth 1.1 that will lead to an improved interpretation and appropriate application of the message of the book.

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Reading Ruth as an Akan Story: A Proposal for an Alternative Akan Mother-Tongue Translation of Ruth 1.1

Boaheng

2021

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“…Persuasive speech is one of view of the rhetoric (Billig, 2001) and it has been mostly studied through politics (Nelson and Garst, 2005;McCabe, 2012;Shteynberg et al, 2016), advertising (Preston, 2005), public speeches ( Jader, 1993;Tillery, 2006) and biblical texts (Michael, 2015;Joosten, 2016). In this paper, persuasive speech is considered as communication with a purpose, in other words, a way to cause a person or group to adopt something that they would otherwise not support.…”

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Persuasive speech in multi-professional change facilitation meetings

Komulainen

Mertaniemi

Lunkka

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JHOM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe persuasive speech and discourses in multi-professional organizational change facilitation meetings at a hospital through rhetorical discourse analysis. Previous research has often considered organizational change to be a managerial issue, with other employees given the rather passive role of implementators. This study takes an alternative approach in assuming that organizational change could benefit by involving those who are most familiar with the tasks to be changed. Design/methodology/approach The study employed a qualitative, case study approach and focused on the construction of a hospitalist model within multi-professional change facilitation meetings. Eight videos of these multi-professional change facilitation meetings – which occurred between January and September 2017 – were observed and the material was analyzed by rhetorical discourse analysis. An average of 10–20 actors from different professional groups participated in the meetings. The change actors comprised physicians, nursing staff and nursing managers, along with a secretary and hospitalist. The meetings were conducted by a change facilitator. Findings The persuasive speech in the analyzed organizational change meetings occurred within five distinct discourses: constructing the change together, positive feedback, strategic change in speech, patient perspective and driving change. The content of these discourses revealed topics that are relevant to persuading members of healthcare organizations to adopt a planned change. Originality/value The presented research provides new knowledge about how persuasive speech is used in organizational change and describes the discourses in which persuasive speech is used in a healthcare context.

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Contrastive Characterization in Ruth 1:6-22: Three Ways to Return from Exile

Decker¹

2019

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By using the narrative device of contrastive characterization, the author of Ruth demonstrates three return-from-exile scenarios that act as a model for the audience. Orpah served as Ruth's foil and represents a return to the pagan culture. Naomi and Ruth project a role reversal. While Naomi returns more like a pagan than a Jewess, Ruth has demonstrated covenant fidelity and illustrated loyalty to YHWH and Israel. She is thus a model for how Jews ought to return from exile to exodus.

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The Art of Persuasion and the Book of Ruth: Literary Devices in the Persuasive Speeches of Ruth 1:6–18

Cited by 4 publications

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Reading Ruth as an Akan Story: A Proposal for an Alternative Akan Mother-Tongue Translation of Ruth 1.1

Reading Ruth as an Akan Story: A Proposal for an Alternative Akan Mother-Tongue Translation of Ruth 1.1

Persuasive speech in multi-professional change facilitation meetings

Contrastive Characterization in Ruth 1:6-22: Three Ways to Return from Exile

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