Jagadish Paudel

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The University of Texas at El Paso ORCID: 0000-0001-9333-8876

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  1. The Rhetoric of the Bhagavad Gita: Unpacking Persuasive Strategies from a Non-Western Perspective ↗
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    The Bhagavad Gita—an acclaimed and venerated ancient sacred religious and philosophical text integral to the Hindu faith—shows several rhetorical strategies. To figure out these strategies, in this essay I analyze the Gita using the Nyayasutras method—a systematic guide to rhetorical analysis of Hindu philosophy. Rhetorical scrutiny is applied to the dialog between two main characters of this sacred text: Bhagavan Krishna and Arjuna. I first introduce the Gita and its significance for rhetorical scholarship. In what follows, I present briefly the Nyayasutra method and discuss three types of rhetorical strategies found in the text: Astikya/bhava (ontological) strategy, jnapaka (revelatory) strategy, and tattva/nyaya (axiological) strategy. I also discuss very briefly some counter-arguments that are offered in the rhetoric of the Gita. My rhetorical analysis contributes to the rich ongoing academic discussion of Hindu rhetorical traditions and deepens existing English-medium scholarly discussion about rhetorical strategies employed in the text.

    doi:10.1080/02773945.2022.2095421
  2. Editor's Introduction: Access Necessarily Precedes Success: Multilingual Student Writers in Higher Education ↗
    doi:10.37514/opw-j.2023.15.1.01
  3. Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families ↗
    doi:10.25148/clj.17.1.010651