Public Speaking category: 1264 books
by Katharina E. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, grade: 1,3, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, course: Allgemeine Rhetorik, language: English, abstract: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has played a powerful role in shaping American public discourse...
Relating Events in Narrative
A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studied the development of linguistic form/function relations in narrative discourse. It is unique in the extent of data which it analyzes--more than 250 texts from children and adults speaking five different languages--and...
Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle’s Rhetoric
The Commentaries of al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Winner, 2018 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature
It is increasingly well documented that western rhetoric’s journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of Christian Europe was significantly influenced by the intellectual thought...
Sorry About That
The Language of Public Apology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
People do bad things. They misspeak, mislead, and misbehave. They lie, cheat, steal, and kill. Often, afterward, they apologize. But what makes a successful apology? Why does Joe Biden's 2007 apology for referring to Barack Obama as "articulate and bright" succeed, whereas Mel Gibson's 2006 apology...
Prisoners of Conscience
Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association’s Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the...
Editorial Bodies
Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve both new and old writing. In Editorial Bodies, Michele Kennerly argues that such efforts were commonly articulated through the extended metaphor of...
Discursive Ideologies
Reading Western Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In Discursive Ideologies, C. H. Knoblauch argues that European rhetorical theory comprises several distinct and fundamentally opposed traditions of discourse. Writing accessibly for the upper division student, Knoblauch resists the conventional narrative of a unified Western rhetorical tradition....
Communication Ethics and Crisis
Negotiating Differences in Public and Private Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
This collection of essays extends the conversation on communication ethics and crisis communication to offer practical wisdom for meeting the challenges of a complex and ever-changing world. In multiple contexts ranging from the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and family to the political and public,...
Unruly Rhetorics
Protest, Persuasion, and Publics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation?
Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism,...
Inaugurations
Inaugural Lectures Delivered at McMaster Divinity College
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The inaugural lecture is a tradition that has been practiced in western universities for centuries. These lectures originated in the great universities of continental Europe, spread to Great Britain, and then to North America. The tradition has now been appropriated further by universities around...
Change Your Words, Change Your Worth
How to Get a Job, a Promotion, and More by Speaking and Writing Effectively
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
SELF IMPROVEMENT
What do getting a job, earning a promotion, making the right friends, and boosting your confidence all have in common? Doing each one of those things is a whole lot easier when you can speak and write without making grammatical mistakes. Just ask any hiring manager, senior-level...
Repurposing Composition
Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In Repurposing Composition, Shari J. Stenberg responds to the increasing neoliberal discourse of academe through the feminist practice of repurposing. In doing so, she demonstrates how tactics informed by feminist praxis can repurpose current writing pedagogy, assessment, public engagement, and other...
Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.
From 1909 to 1916, thousands of IWW members engaged...
Make Your Point!
Debate for ESL/EFL Students (Downloadable Audio Included)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
This valuable workbook and downloadable audio can turn any ESL student into an accomplished debater!
Make Your Point! opens the world of formal debate to the English learner. Debate fundamentals are taught form the first chapter in a student-centered format suitable for large and small classes...