… and accounting returns in a large sample of CEO letters in the wake of the global
economic crisis, our objective is to explore the congruence between rhetorical tone and firm …

… that an optimistic tone in CEO letters published during the economic crisis is sincere based
on its … management theory that Optimism is a rhetorical manipulation aimed at distorting the …

… is suggested that future studies of negativity might consider how different party organizations
affect the campaign tone; … The parties’ rhetorical tone may be affected by not only contextual …

… (MD) features and its relevance to the rhetorical style … , the rhetorical identity behind
the influence of L1 culture is … In the aspect of keeping the balance of rhetorical tone when …

… tone of the encyclical is at times fraternal and at times paternal: paternal in the pope's insistence
that his ruling is … The New Testament epistles share a similar tone. The readers are re…

… understand the concept of tone and help them control their own tone better in writing. Many
… and rhetoric note that tone is hard to define and difficult to teach. In their sections on tone in …

… We define tone dispersion as the degree to which tone is spread evenly throughout a
disclosure narrative. Rhetoric and communication theory (Kintsch and Yarbrough [1982], Spivey […

… by defining tone—for their purposes, “a subset of style” that is … of Political Tone explores the
“societal forces” influencing tone. … Arguing that “politics is a proletarian activity, constantly in …

… the rhetorical constitution of the expert ethos of the MD and … One source—the one we examine
here—is rhetorical … plain language and a calm tone of voice, which is notably different from …

… rhetorical negative questions which are really equivalent to statements in meaning, the general
tone level of the voice is higher still, and the tone of the te is … P (md dmm dmdm) who is it …