Public Speaking category: 1264 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton’s annotations, use social media to engage academic and public audiences in the interpretation of cultural texts,...
by Douglas Walton
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Essential to an understanding of argumentation and logic, Ad Hominem Arguments is a vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse.
In the 1860s, northern newspapers attacked Abraham Lincoln's policies by attacking his character, using the terms "drunk," "baboon,"...
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge
A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
In this second edition of Steve Fuller's original work Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies, James Collier joins Fuller in developing an updated and accessible version of Fuller's classic volume. The new edition shifts focus slightly to...
The House of My Sojourn
Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within. Sutton’s central argument...
Suburban Dreams
Imagining and Building the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award finalist
Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents...
by James Zeigler
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the international reputation of the United States. For America to present itself as a model of democracy in contrast to the Soviet Union's totalitarianism, Jim Crow needed to end. While...
Rhetoric and Power
The Drama of Classical Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning with the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its...
Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Since its publication in 1935, Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change, a text that can serve as an introduction to all his theories, has become a landmark of rhetorical theory. Using new archival sources and contextualizing Burke in the past and present, Ann George offers the first sustained exploration...
Popular Memories
Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassroots commemorations and official historical institutions became more open to popular participation. In this first book-length study of participatory memory practices, Ekaterina V. Haskins critically examines this trend by asking...
Queerly Remembered
Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Queerly Remembered investigates the ways in which gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) individuals and communities have increasingly turned to public tellings of their ostensibly shared pasts in order to advocate for political, social, and cultural change in the present. Much like...
by Marouf Hasian Jr., Sean Lawson, Megan D. McFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The Rhetorical Invention of America’s National Security State examines the rhetoric and discourse produced by and constitutive of America’s national security state. Hasian, Lawson, and McFarlane illustrate the importance of rhetoric to the expansion of the American national security state in the...
The Mark of Criminality
Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop
In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era,...
What Are Stem Cells?
Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
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In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have engaged in an ethical debate regarding the development of and research on embryonic stem cells. Does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book...