Public Speaking category: 1264 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume charts new methodological territories for rhetorical studies and the emerging field of the rhetoric of health and medicine. In offering an expanded, behind-the-scenes view of rhetorical methodologies, it advances the larger goal of differentiating the rhetoric of health and medicine as...
Spiritual Modalities
Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A bold recasting of prayer as a rhetorical art, Spiritual Modalities investigates situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. Examining how prayer “works,” Spiritual Modalities reads prayer’s situations and strategies, its characteristic acts and...
Language Power
Dynamic Progression from Word to Message
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The focus of Language Power: Dynamic Progression from Word to Message is on words and how they convey meaning and feeling. The microscopic focus on the word itself evolves into the logical organization of words into meaningful sentences, paragraphs, and document sections. The focus is on the somewhat...
Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs examines...
by Sharon J. Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Gertrude Stein is recognized as an iconic and canonical literary modernist. In Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric, Sharon J. Kirsch broadens our understanding of Stein’s influence to include her impact on the field of rhetoric.
For humanities scholars as well as popular audiences,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Die Beiträge dieses Buches untersuchen verschiedene Fragestellungen zu religiösen Bezügen in nicht-religiöser Sprache, etwa in Redewendungen, Ortsnamen, Ökonomie-Diskursen oder politischer Rhetorik, und zu nicht-(nur-)religiösen Konstruktionen in religiöser Sprache, etwa in Gebeten und anderen...
Logos without Rhetoric
The Arts of Language before Plato
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called “rhetoric”? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized—or perhaps invented—their...
by Lucja Biel
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The book is one of the few in-depth investigations into the nature of EU legal translation and its impact on national legal languages. It is also the first attempt to characterise EU Polish, a language of supranational law and a hybrid variant of legal Polish emerging via translation. The book applies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The volume takes a close look at discourse perspectives on academic genres. In the context of scientific communication and the evolution of postmodern culture and society, academic genres have undergone various changes. The study shows that cultural heterogeneity of academic genres, styles and discourses...
The New Psychology of Language
Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive...
Idioms
Processing, Structure, and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
"The book draws on a lot of research, is friendly to the reader, and will be of good value to teachers."
Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, Australia
This comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible text on idiom use, learning, and teaching approaches the topic with...
Idioms
Structural and Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Idioms have always aroused the curiosity of linguists and there is a long tradition in the study of idioms, especially within the fields of lexicology and lexicography. Without denying the importance of this tradition, this volume presents an overview of recent idiom research outside the immediate...
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition
Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
This reference guide surveys the field, covering rhetoric's principles, concepts, applications, practical tools, and major thinkers. Drawing on the scholarship and expertise of 288 contributors, the Encyclopedia presents a long-needed overview of rhetoric and its role in contemporary education and...
The Keys of Power
The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Nathan Crick has crafted a new critical rhetorical history of American Transcendentalists that interprets a selection of their major works between the years 1821 and 1852 as political and ethical responses to the growing crises of their times. In The Keys of Power, Crick argues that one of the most...