Public Speaking category: 1264 books
by Tania Bianchi
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Questa GUIDA PRATICA ULTRA RAPIDA
è per chi desidera gestire
qualsiasi tipo di incontro,
dalla piccola riunione
al discorso davanti a centinaia di persone,
con risultati eclatanti.
HAI PAURA DI PARLARE IN PUBBLICO?
Superala velocemente con questi “25 Segreti”
svelati da Tania Bianchi,
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Rereading Appalachia
Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them...
Multilingualism and Mobility in Europe
Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
How do individuals experience multilingualism and mobility in the context of Europeanization and globalisation? The contributors explore language-in-education policies and family language policies, as well as the complex interface between multilingualism and space. They provide fresh insights on key...
by VISCOUNT MORLEY
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Indian Speeches
(1907-1909)
BY VISCOUNT MORLEY
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The modern and Western spirit is assuredly at work in the Indian countries, but the vital question for Indian Governments is, How far it has changed the ideas of men?—SIR HENRY MAINE.
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Deviant Women
Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate...
Carrying a Torch
The Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in the British and Chinese Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West. The author argues that the discourse...
Rhetorical Realism
Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself according to human speech and writing, the...
Language, Structure and Reproduction (Routledge Revivals)
An Introduction to the Sociology of Basil Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Basil Bernstein is one of the most creative and influential of contemporary British sociologists, yet his work – especially that relating to language and social structure – is widely misunderstood and misrepresented. This book, first published in 1985, addresses the underlying themes and continuities...
Primary Research and Writing
People, Places, and Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Developed for emerging academic writers, Primary Research and Writing offers a fresh take on the nature of doing research in the writing classroom. Encouraging students to write about topics for which they have a passion or personal connection, this text emphasizes the importance of primary research...
Metafilm
Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
In Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema, Christopher Carter examines paradoxical rhetoric in visual culture, analyzing movies that immerse viewers in violent narratives while examining the ethics of the transaction. Featuring the films of Michael Haneke, Atom Egoyan, Icíar Bollaín,...
Writing/Disciplinarity
A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Over the past century, the explosive growth of scientific, technical, and cultural disciplines has profoundly affected our daily lives. However, processes of enculturation in sites such as graduate education that have helped to form these disciplines have received very limited research attention....
Assembling Arguments
Multimodal Rhetoric and Scientific Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Scientific arguments—and indeed arguments in most disciplines—depend on visuals and other nontextual elements; however, most models of argumentation typically neglect these important resources. In Assembling Arguments, Jonathan Buehl offers a concentrated study of scientific argumentation that...
Making Camp
Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality.
Camp has long been aligned with gay male...
Activism and Rhetoric
Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This volume examines the role of rhetoric in today’s culture of democratic activism. The volume takes on two of the most significant challenges currently facing contemporary rhetorical studies: (1) the contested meanings and practices of democracy and civic engagement in global context, and (2)...