Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Talking the Talk
Getting the Message Across
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Do you dread standing up in front of a group of people to deliver a short talk or presentation? Even the sixty second introduction at meetings? Have you been thrust into a training role with no training yourself for the role? Do you know how to structure your talk? How to get the content right? How...
by Kristin K. Winet, Abby L. Wilkerson, Winona Landis
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives.
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Consuming Identity
The Role of Food in Redefining the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Southerners love to talk food, quickly revealing likes and dislikes, regional preferences, and their own delicious stories. Because the topic often crosses lines of race, class, gender, and region, food supplies a common fuel to launch discussion. Consuming Identity sifts through the self-definitions,...
Winning Arguments
What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to ‘Married with Children’ to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory” — New York Times Book Review
A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class...
by Vera F. Birkenbihl
Language: German
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: October 8, 2018
In diesem Bändchen versammelt die erfolgreiche Autorin und Rhetorik-Trainerin Vera F. Birkenbihl die wichtigsten Übungen und Regeln für erfolgreiche Redekunst - ein schneller und unterhaltsamer Einstieg für Rhetorik-Anfänger! Das Buch enthält eine Mischung aus klassischen und ganz neu entwickelten...
by Robin Allott
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
The motor theory is about the process by which language emerged and developed and how it functions now in human speech. The concern is with both synchronic and the diachronic aspects of language, language evolving over time and differentiating over space. In English alone we have half a million words...
Signal to Syntax
Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In the beginning, before there are words, or syntax, or discourse, there is speech. Speech is an infant's gateway to language. Without exposure to speech, no language--or at most only a feeble facsimile of language--develops, regardless of how rich a child's biological endowment for language learning...
Disabled Upon Arrival
Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise...
by James Geary
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." —Stephen Fry
Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In...
Phonology
A Cognitive View
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Designed to acquaint the reader with the field of phonology -- the study of the systems of linguistically significant sounds -- this book begins with a brief introduction to linguistics and a discussion of phonology's place within that field. It then goes on to cover a variety of topics including...
by William Frawley
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic meaning. While partial to conceptual and typological approaches, the book also presents results from formal approaches. Throughout, the focus is on grammatical meaning -- the way languages delineate universal semantic...
Rhetorics and Technologies
New Directions in Writing and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Recognizing an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen contributors to this volume illuminate the challenges and opportunities inherent in successfully navigating intersections between rhetoric and technology in existing and emergent literacy practices. Edited by Stuart...
by Matt Purland
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Learn how to spot common mistakes in written English – and avoid making them!
Can you spot the mistake in the text below?
What’s the chances of a manned mission to Mars?
It could be a problem with apostrophes or a missing article, or maybe it just doesn’t make sense. It could be there’s a...
by John Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
You have a wonderful opportunity to add to the magic of your daughter's wedding. Your words will linger in memories - they may even be captured on video for future generations to hear. So what are the golden rules of speech-making? How can you convey emotion, seriousness and add a touch of humour?