Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Theoretical Issues in Language Acquisition
Continuity and Change in Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In recent linguistic theory, there has been an explosion of detailed studies of language variation. This volume applies such recent analyses to the study of child language, developing new approaches to change and variation in child grammars and revealing both early knowledge in several areas of grammar...
Rhetorica in Motion
Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
Rhetorica in Motion is the first collected work to investigate feminist rhetorical research methods in both contemporary and historical contexts. The contributors analyze the decision-making processes and methodologies employed in deciphering the origins, meanings, theories, workings, and manifestations...
by George Otte, Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Framed by historic developments—from the Open Admissions movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the attacks on remediation that intensified in the 1990s and beyond—Basic Writing traces the arc of these large social and cultural forces as they have shaped and reshaped the field.
The Rhetoric of Pope Francis
Critical Mercy and Conversion for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
What is it about the rhetoric of one the most influential and powerful religious leaders in the world and in history—Pope Francis—that is so engaging and yet so challenging to the Church writ large, the American Congress, the news media, and the world? The Rhetoric of Pope Francis: Critical Mercy...
The Powers of Articulation
Studying persuasion through The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, grade: 10th, , course: English II, language: English, abstract: Persuasion is a massive force. Understanding it is thus key to wielding a formidable power. William Shakespeare exposes persuasion's strength in his play, The Tragedy...
Genre
An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a “genre turn” in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory.
by Casey Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In response to the pervasiveness of emerging communication technologies, Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice argues that information be understood as an embodied, material practice. The guiding proposition for this book is that digital rhetoric now concerns how bodies, broadly construed, become informed...
Communicating Mobility and Technology
A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication
Responding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder turns specifically to automobility, a term...
Children's Language
Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Surrender
Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
In an ethnographic study spanning the last years of research collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Maute’s life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intimacy demand a methodological break from accepted...
How to Reason
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Too often we're guided by what we last heard, by our friends' approval, by impulse—our desires, our fears. Without reflection. Without even stopping to think. In this book you'll learn how to reason and find your way better in life. You'll learn to see the consequences of what you and others say...
Justice Scalia
Rhetoric and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Justice Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the “new originalist” interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court’s interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of the words at the time of drafting. For Scalia,...
by Laurence B. Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a disorder that is more prevalent than autism.
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show a significant deficit in spoken language that cannot be attributed to neurological damage, hearing impairment,...
The Two Cultures of English
Literature, Composition, and the Moment of Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
This book examines the long-standing divide in English between literary studies and composition from a new perspective, tracing the unwritten conversation between figures from across the discipline of English that do not typically interact.