Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Children's Language
Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child language...
by Ayed Alqarni
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, , course: Master of Applied Linguistics , language: English, abstract: The context of the study is teaching English as a foreign language to four adult immigrant learners who attended the Bachelor of Arts...
Behold the Proverbs of a People
Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies)...
by Vesna Mildner
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech therapists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Although speech and language are its central topic, it provides information...
Adaptive Rhetoric
Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Rhetorical scholarship has for decades relied solely on culture to explain persuasive behavior. While this focus allows for deep explorations of historical circumstance, it neglects the powerful effects of biology on rhetorical behavior – how our bodies and brains help shape and constrain rhetorical...
Rhetoric’s Pragmatism
Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume collects fourteen of his most recent influential essays on the methodology, plus an interview.
Following...
Political Tone
How Leaders Talk and Why
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician’s career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusive element of tone.
In Political Tone,...
Stories, Meaning, and Experience
Narrativity and Enaction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This is a book about the human propensity to think about and experience the world through stories. ‘Why do we have stories?’, ‘How do stories create meaning for us?’, and ‘How is storytelling distinct from other forms of meaning-making?’ are some of the questions that this book seeks to...
Writing and Reading Mental Health Records
Issues and Analysis in Professional Writing and Scientific Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This revised and updated second edition is a rhetorical analysis of written communication in the mental health community. As such, it contributes to the growing body of research being done in rhetoric and composition studies on the nature of writing and reading in highly specialized professional discourse...
James Farmer Jr.
The Great Debater
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater provides a rhetorical and biographical guide to how the American Civil Rights Movement came into being. It details James Farmer Jr.’s intellectual emergence as a young debater at an HBCU in Marshall, Texas and ultimately chronicles how this led to the emergence...
by Samuel Boerboom, Joe Abisaid, Jennifer Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often strategically vague, which tends to serve the interests of powerful entities.Boerboom and his contributors...
by Phillip Khan-Panni
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
The focus of this book is on that brief but terrifying prospect: the Best Man's speech. The book includes techniques for using stories, jokes and quotations that will lift your speech well above the bare necessities, helping you not only to make the speech, but also to enjoy it. More than just a guide...
by William L. Benoit
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements examines theory and research on election advertisements. William Benoit employs the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to understand the nature or content of television spots in election campaigns. Beginning with a look at...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents.
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