Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Speaking of Language and Law
Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers...
Thinking Together
Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how...
The Style and Rhetoric of Elizabeth Dole
Public Persona and Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure navigated the double binds that confront women who obtain and exercise political power. The text argues that Dole crafted a conservative, feminine persona in which she depicted...
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection
James Wynn’s timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies...
Angry Public Rhetorics
Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action—a theory that treats humans as “symbol-using animals” to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs—to account for the way in which anger produced similar rhetorics in...
A Responsive Rhetorical Art
Artistic Methods for Contemporary Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A Responsive Rhetorical Art explores the risk-ridden realm of wise if always also fallible rhetorical action—the productive knowledge building required to compose and to leverage texts, broadly construed, for the purposes of public life marked by shrinking public resources, cultural conflict, and...
Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations
An Isocratean Model
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This book expands the theoretical foundations of modern public relations, a growing young profession that lacked even a name until the twentieth century. As the discipline seeks guiding theories and paradigms, rhetorics both ancient and modern have proven to be fruitful fields of exploration. Charles...
Enough Said
What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that...
by Michael Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social norms...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Public deliberation depends on how skillful communicators are in establishing their version of what is known to be publicly acceptable. This volume provides rhetorical analyses of institutional websites, political speeches, scientific presentations, journalistic accounts or visual entertainment. It...
An African Athens
Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
An African Athens offers an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric--the reshaping of a nation into a democracy through rhetorical means. Author Philippe-Joseph Salazar provides a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the apartheid and post-apartheid South African experience, presenting...
A War of Words
The Rhetorical Leadership of Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A rhetorical analysis of Jefferson Davis’s public discourse
Numerous biographies of Jefferson Davis have been penned; however, until now, there had been no substantive analysis of his public discourse as president of the Confederacy. R. Jarrod Atchison’s A War of Words uses concepts from...
Introducing Science through Images
Cases of Visual Popularization
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure, public support becomes essential. Because of its promise for captivating nonexpert publics, the practice of merging art and imagery with science has been gaining traction in the scientific community. While images have...
Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics
Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics, Damien Pfister explores communicative practices in networked media environments, analyzing, in particular, how the blogosphere has changed the conduct and coverage of public debate. Pfister shows how the late modern imaginary was susceptible to “deliberation...