Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Toxic Tourism
Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered...
The Open Hand
Arguing as an Art of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Based on five years of classroom experimentation, The Open Hand presents a highly practical yet transformational philosophy of teaching argumentative writing. In his course Arguing as an Art of Peace, Barry Kroll uses the open hand to represent an alternative approach to argument, asking students...
Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory
A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology, political science and education, sociology and law,...
by Jon R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and...
Critics, Compilers, and Commentators
An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 BCE-800 CE
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
"To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets" were the two standard duties of Roman teachers. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latin's history and importance contributed to the Romans' understanding of their own cultural...
Rhetoric and Pedagogy
Its History, Philosophy, and Practice: Essays in Honor of James J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
To provide a view of the history of western rhetoric, this volume presents original articles by a number of world-renowned scholars representing different countries and varying viewpoints. In discussing the status of the historical perspectives on rhetoric, these international scholars also present...
by James J. Murphy, Richard A. Katula, Michael Hoppmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric. Offering vivid examples of each...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once again "contagious" and "communicable" (Friedrich...
Better Than Great
A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
A veritable "tko of terminology," Better Than Great is the essential guide for describing the extraordinary — the must have reference for anyone wishing to rise above tired superlatives. Deft praise encourages others to feel as we do, share our enthusiasms. It rewards deserving objects of admiration....
by Jonathon Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes...
by Jennifer Wingard
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Branded Bodies, Rhetoric, and the Neoliberal Nation-State, by Dr. Jennifer Wingard,explores how neoliberal economics has affected the rhetoric of the media and politics, and how in very direct, material ways it harms the bodies of some of the United States’ most vulnerable occupants. The book is...
Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction
Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert...
Rhetorical Strategies for Composition
Cracking an Academic Code
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Cracking an Academic Code: Rhetorical Strategies for Composition is a worktext designed for composition students to apply rhetorical theory in their writing. The exercises interconnect rhetorical skill work for students to practice "thinking on paper" in style, language, and conventions....
Tropic Tendencies
Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain...