Public Speaking category: 1264 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently "dialogical." No speaker speaks alone, because our words are always partly shaped by our interactions with others, past and future. Moreover, we never...
Mindfulness Made Easy
Be more mindful in your daily life
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Mindful meditation has been around for thousands of years, and is used by top therapists as a highly effective way of overcoming anxiety, depression and a number of other emotional difficulties. It has also caught the popular imagination as a wonderful way of living in the moment and increasing one's...
Tutorials in Bilingualism
Psycholinguistic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The past fifteen years have witnessed an increasing interest in the cognitive study of the bilingual. A major reason why psychologists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, neuropsychologists, and educators have pursued this topic at an accelerating pace presumably is the acknowledgment by increasingly...
by Iosif Brodskij
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 26, 2014
La sorte ha voluto che Iosif Brodskij si sia trovato, a distanza di pochi giorni, nell’autunno del 1987, a scrivere i due discorsi qui raccolti, che vengono ad assumere nella sua opera un significato simbolico: il discorso su "La condizione che chiamiamo esilio" e quello per il Premio...
Alien Life and Human Purpose
A Rhetorical Examination through History
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Alien Life and Human Purpose: A Rhetorical Examination through History provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or “unity,” to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Although the unity myth has often...
The Rhetorical Invention of Man
A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This book draws attention to the logical contradictions, unstable premises, and unquestioned assumptions that underlie arguments about Man’s distinction, while also demonstrating that the way we think about nonhuman animals is only one possibility among many. Vestiges of older ways of thinking continue...
by Hilary Kennedy, Martyn Jones, Phoebe Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
All humans have an innate need and ability to communicate with others, and this book presents successful approaches to nurturing communicative abilities in people who have some type of communication impairment.
The contributors look at a wide range of approaches, including intensive interaction,...
Other Children, Other Languages
Issues in the theory of Language Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This volume investigates the implications of the study of populations other than educated, middle-class, normal children and languages other than English on a universal theory of language acquisition. Because the authors represent different theoretical orientations, their contributions permit the...
Las razones del Derecho
Teorías de la Argumentación Jurídica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Las Razones del Derecho estudia de manera analítica y crítica las teorías más relevantes desarrolladas a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y que se presentan como precursoras de la teoría contemporánea de la argumentación jurídica. En la primera parte se analizan, la tópica de Viehweg;...
Deixis in Narrative
A Cognitive Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop a computational model for narrative understanding. Disciplines represented include artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, communicative disorders, education,...
by Kala Ramachandran
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Living proof that a stammer need not hold you back'. Lets Geddes. Kala Ramachandran struggled with a stammer and it became so debilitating she thought it would be with her her whole life. But then she embraced mountaineering. And finally found her voice. This is her story. 'It is a given we will have...
Children's Language
Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This collection, aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in technical communication, focuses on the praxis-based connections between technical communication and theoretical movements that have emerged in the past several decades, namely new materialism and posthumanism. It provides a much needed...
by Moshe Anisfeld
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.