| Many of these arguments from the early 1980s now appear rhetorically overextended, with too many unsubstantiated leaps across discursive spans. |
| Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context. |
| The preface, to be sure, shows a perhaps rhetorically prudent ambivalence towards the use of humour in polemic. |
| One senior advisor asked, rhetorically, if illiterate farmers would vote for the information superhighway. |
| Unmediated devices are motivated rhetorically, while mediated devices are motivated both rhetorically and referentially. |
| Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable. |
