Public Speaking category: 1264 books
by Quentin Bach
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Nobody is born a great orator. Being a good speaker requires a lot of training and planning. There are people that talk and there are people that listen.
by Gail Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Few conversational topics can be as significant as our troubles in life, whether everyday and commonplace, or more exceptional and disturbing. In groundbreaking research conducted with John Lee at the University of Manchester UK, Gail Jefferson turned the microscope on how people talk about their...
Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, and Second Language Learning
The Mcgill Conference in Honour of Wallace E. Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This collection pays tribute to Professor Wallace E. Lambert and his contributions to the fields of language and linguistics. Each chapter, written by an internationally renowned theorist or researcher, traces the currents of theory and research within the topic area to the present day, provides a...
Interacting With Audiences
Social Influences on the Production of Scientific Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
This distinctive monograph examines the dynamic rhetorical processes by which scientists shape, negotiate, and position their work within an interdisciplinary community. Author Ann M. Blakeslee studies the everyday rhetorical practices of a group of condensed matter theoretical physicists, and presents...
by Gary C. Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
The Rhetoric of Intention in Human Affairs is an insightful account of the rhetorical and psychological habits we exhibit when we must explain the reasons others act. The assumption that we can know what motivates another person is fed by more hope than certainty, and yet it is evidence of a very...
Scalia v. Scalia
Opportunistic Textualism in Constitutional Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
An analysis of the discrepancy between the ways Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued the Constitution should be interpreted versus how he actually interpreted the law
Antonin Scalia is considered one of the most controversial justices to have been on the United States Supreme Court....
by Michael Donnelly, Rebecca Ingalls
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Critical Conversations About Plagiarism is an edited collection of essays that addresses traditional, overly simplistic treatments of plagiarism by providing approaches to the topic that are complex, critical, and challenging, as well as accessible to both students and teachers.
by Michelle Murray Yang
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Despite the U.S. and China’s shared economic and political interests, distrust between the nations persists. How does the United States rhetorically navigate its relationship with China in the midst of continued distrust? This bookpursues this question by rhetorically analyzingU.S. news and political...
Networked Process
Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Helen Foster problematizes one of the dominant metaphors in rhetoric and composition, the notion of “writing process,” and, in turn, offers an important and engaging new approach for the future of the discipline, one that directly addresses the complexities, challenges, and opportunities for writing research in a postmodern world.
Image and Emotion in Voter Decisions
The Affect Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Drawing on a decade of their own research from the 2000 to 2012 U.S. presidential elections, Renita Coleman and Denis Wu explore the image presentation of political candidates and its influence at both aggregate and individual levels. When facing complex political decisions, voters often rely on gut...
The Sounds of Spoken English
A Manual of Ear Training for English Students (4th edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
As the title of this book is ambitious, and the sub-title may not suffice to indicate its limitations, it is well to warn the reader that he will find no exhaustive treatment of English speech sounds. That would have required knowledge greater than mine, and more space than was at my disposal. The...
The Presentation Secrets of Professional Speakers!
The difference that makes the difference...
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
A highly readable exposition on this fascinating subject! ‘The Presentation Secrets of Professional Speakers!’ is based upon the writer’s personal experience having presented to numerous corporations for over two decades. Philip's accolades from participants have been second to none - typical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors...
Similes, Puns and Counterfactuals in Literary Narrative
Visible Figures
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In this study, Jennifer Riddle Harding presents a cognitive analysis of three figures of speech that have readily identifiable forms: similes, puns, and counterfactuals. Harding argues that when deployed in literary narrative, these forms have narrative functions—such as the depiction of conscious...