Public Speaking category: 1264 books
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and space. Before images, viewers engage in the personal...
The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy
How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics, by Scott Welsh, disputes the idea that democracy has anything to do with public deliberation in pursuit of collective judgment. Welsh argues, rather, that the impossibility of any kind of public judgment is...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Although, language is certainly individualized, most people conform to linguistic norms because of their surroundings. Over time, particular words and phrases are popularized by the media, social trends, or world events; and with emergence of internet technologies, the communication between all types...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing...
Communicating Terror
The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The only book to examine terrorism as a rhetorical act
*"This is an excellent text in furthering our understanding of the web of language and how it creates our mediated realities – which reflect our culture, politics, religion, economics, etc. Students really like the case studies and...
Forensics in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Here is the story of the process by which competitive speech and debate evolved in the United States during the 20th Century.
This authoritative history shows how forensics, as practiced in the United States, was an uneasy fusion of contradictory premises that began as a significant part of...
Available Means of Persuasion, The
Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
From the beginning, rhetoric has been a productive and practical art aimed at preparing citizens to participate in communal life. Possibilities for this participation are continually evolving in light of cultural and technological changes. The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy...
It's the Way You Say It
Becoming Articulate, Well-Spoken, and Clear
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Speak Your Mind Effectively! The best, most direct way to convey your intelligence, expertise, professionalism, and personality to other people is through talking to them. But most people have no idea what they sound like. And even if they do, they don’t think they can change it. It’s the Way...
Can You Say a Few Words?
How to Prepare and Deliver a Speech for Any Special Occasion
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
-Your alma mater asks you to say a few words at an upcoming fundraising dinner
-You've won an employee award and will have to give a short acceptance speech at the ceremony
-Your parents are celebrating their 50th anniversary, and you'd like to make a toast at their party
Everyone's counting...
What to Talk About
On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Homo sapiens have been speaking for hundreds of years—and yet basic communication still stymies us. We freeze up in elevators, on dates, at parties, under Dumpsters. We stagger through our exchanges merely hoping not to crash, never considering that we might soar. We go home sweaty and eat a birthday...
STUTTERING SELF-CURES
in Six Steps
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This book is written for stutterers by an ex-stutterer. If you don’t consider yourself to be a stutterer (or at least one who suffers severe anxiety attacks, especially related to speaking), or one who mentors stutterers, this book may not interest you – except for those parts of it that deal...
by Bodine Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
IN SCHOOL WE'RE TAUGHT THE WRITTEN WORD, BUT IN LIFE IT'S WHAT WE SAY THAT MATTERS—ESPECIALLY DURING INTERVIEWS
Game Face pushes the playback button on 19 real media interviews to illustrate the verbal skills, techniques, and tactics you'll need to master any interview. It's the ultimate...
Vernacular Eloquence
What Speech Can Bring to Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized how people think about writing. Now, in Vernacular Eloquence, he makes a vital new contribution to both practice and theory. The core idea is simple: we can enlist virtues...
Tasteful Domesticity
Women's Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well as physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge...