Public Speaking category: 1264 books
by Edwin Black, Jason Edward Black, Dana L. Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these issues—predominantly purpose—exists primarily as scattered journal articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks...
Presidents and Protestors
Political Rhetoric in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
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The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The “resounding rhetoric,” from Kennedy’s celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book. The importance...
Levinas's Rhetorical Demand
The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Distinguished Book Award, Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association, 2017
Top Book Award, Communication Ethics Division, National Communication Association, 2017
Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics as first philosophy explicates a human obligation and...
by Dave Tell
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening...
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies.
Recent protests around the...
by Quentin Bach
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Nobody is born a great orator. Being a good speaker requires a lot of training and planning. The world's greatest speakers: Socrates, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and many, many more have spent a lot of time polishing and practicing their speeches before delivering them and stunning the audience.
Genre in the Classroom
Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
For the first time, the major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing an overview of the state of the art for practitioners in applied linguistics, ESL/EFL pedagogies, rhetoric, and composition studies around...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
The theory of contrastive rhetoric was first put forth by Robert Kaplan in the mid 1960s to explain the differences in writing and discourse between students who were native speakers of English and their international counterparts. Over the past three decades, contrastive rhetoric theory has been...
Childhood Bilingualism
Aspects of Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The papers published in this volume were originally read and discussed at a three day seminar sponsored by the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion/Societie Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses at Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, May 28th to 30th, 1976. This seminar served the important...
Sound & Hearing
A Conceptual Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The major aim of this book is to introduce the ways in which scientists approach and think about a phenomenon -- hearing -- that intersects three quite different disciplines: the physics of sound sources and the propagation of sound through air and other materials, the anatomy and physiology of the...
Policy Debate
A Guide for High School and College Debaters
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In Policy Debate: A Guide for High School and College Debaters, Shawn F. Briscoe introduces educators, coaches, and students at the high school and college levels to the concepts at the foundation of policy debate, also known as cross-examination debate, and uses conceptual analysis and real-world...
Prosodie, traduction, fonctions
Ouvrage de référence sur les sciences du langage
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Compte rendu de l’Assemblée générale 2009 de la SILF. Conférences plénières.Retrouvez dans cet ouvrage les thèmes suivants :Thème 1. Prosodie, sens et norme.Thème 2. Langues, cultures et discours.Thème 3. Terminologie. Communications individuelles.
Communicating Meaning
The Evolution and Development of Language
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Dealing specifically with the origins and development of human language, this book is based on a selection of materials from a recent international conference held at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld in Germany. The significance of the volume is that it testifies...