Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Learning to Rival
A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Learning to Rival tells the inside story of college and high school writers learning to "rival"--to actively seek rival hypotheses and negotiate alternative perspectives on charged questions. It shows how this interdisciplinary literate practice alters with the context of use and how, in learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
In The Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field.
The Evolving Citizen
American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today’s young adults, so the story goes,...
Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion
An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and...
Reading Sounds
Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henchman’s muttering in the background? Does the villain...
by John Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
What are the golden rules of speech making? How should you respond to the toast to the bride and groom? And which people do you need to thank and how? The answers to all these questions and more are here in this much-needed book. Now you can make your wedding day speech memorable for all the right...
by Catherine Frank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
On the most important occasions of our lives, we often find ourselves at a loss for words; when we want to console, celebrate, explain, inspire, or thank, we end up repeating such uninspiring, uninformative phrases as "Words cannot express how I feel." To help us find the right words, Catherine...
by David Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
David Carrier examines the history and practice of art writing and reveals its importance to the art museum, the art gallery, and aesthetic theory. Artists, art historians, and art lovers alike can gain fresh insight into how written descriptions of painting and sculpture affect the experience of...
The Art of Storytelling
Telling Truths Through Telling Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Storytelling is an art, as well as a skill. It allows the listener to take an idea and shape it into something that is relatable on a personal level. In The Art of Storytelling: Telling Truths Through Telling Stories, Amy E. Spaulding enables the reader to learn how to develop this skill, while also...
Ambient Rhetoric
The Attunements of Rhetorical Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external information sources, rhetoric can no longer remain tied...
Eristische Dialektik: Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten
Kunst des Streitens, Kunst des Disputierens
Language: German
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Dieses eBook: "Eristische Dialektik: Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. In der Arbeit werden die seit der Antike verwendeten philosophischen Grundbegriffe Eristik (Lehre vom Streitgespräch)...
The Power of Words
Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and...
Talking Data
Transcription and Coding in Discourse Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This book presents the reader with a set of diverse, carefully developed and clearly specified systems of transcription and coding, arising from contrasting theoretical perspectives, and presented as alternative choices, situated within the theoretical domain most natural to each. The perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The studies of rhetoric and literature have been closely connected on the theoretical level ever since antiquity, and many great works of literature were written by men and women who were well versed in rhetoric. It is therefore well worth investigating exactly what these writers knew about rhetoric...