Public Speaking category: 1264 books
The Inaugural Address, 2009
Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Celebrate the inauguration of America's 44th president with this New York Times bestseller
Tying into the official theme for the 2009 inaugural ceremony, "A New Birth of Freedom" from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Penguin presents a keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration...
by Jane Garmey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Show me a person without any prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener.--Allen Lacy. Idiosyncratic, determined, and occasionally obsessed, gardeners have a lot to say about their outdoor passion. THE WRITER IN THE GARDEN...
by Werner Flohr
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, grade: 1,3, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: Contents Page 1.Introduction3 2.Getting Started3 3.Body Language5 4.Keep it Going6 5.Showing Interest8 6.'Popping Smoke'9 7.Conclusion 10 References11
by Geoffrey Nunberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
There has never been,” Nunberg writes, an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world.... Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against them.” These are the years...
The Elements of Expression
Putting Thoughts into Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
More than ever in this completely updated edition, The Elements of Expression helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or the face across the table" as they seek the radiance of expressiveness—the vivid expression of thoughts, feelings, and observations. Nothing kills radiance like...
by Suzanne Romaine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Suzanne Romaine's main concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. In addition to linguistics--which provides the starting point and central focus of the book--she draws on the fields of anthropology,...
Compelling Confessions
The Politics of Personal Disclosure
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to this collection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Images play an important role in developing consciousness and the relationship of the self to its surroundings. In this distinctive collection, editors Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers examine the connection between visual images and persuasion, or how images act rhetorically upon viewers. Chapters...
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Cicero placed a high value on the importance of mastering the skill of rhetoric, which is the art of using language as a means to persuade. Such a skill was important especially in the practice of law and politics, of which he did both. In the "Treatise of Rhetorical Invention" Cicero outlines his theories...
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist who lived during the first century BC. Considered as one of the great minds of ancient Rome, Cicero was also a gifted orator and gave many famous speeches during his political career. In...
Remembrances and Celebrations
A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This rich anthology of memorial tributes serves as a welcome reminder that, although words cannot necessarily assuage grief, they can provide tremendous comfort and perspective during our times of loss. The likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, W.H. Auden and Diana, Princess of Wales,...
The Size of Thoughts
Essays and Other Lumber
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The Size of Thoughts, a collection of essays that have appeared in the New Yorker and other publications, includes one never-before-published piece on the world of electronics. The essays celebrate the joy--and exquisite details--of everything from library card catalogs and reading aloud to the significance...
The World's Great Sermons
Volume I—Basil to Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Collections of sermons by noted preachers of different periods are not an altogether uncommon contribution to literature. Italy, Germany, Holland, France, Great Britain and the United States have in this way furnished copious illustrations of the gifts of their illustrious preachers. Such treasures...
Listening to the Logos
Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
In Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient Greek thought and teachings—from the mythopoetic tradition of Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle's treatises....