Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Text + Field
Innovations in Rhetorical Method
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead...
by Marilyn M. Cooper, John Muckelbauer, Christa Teston
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.
The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively...
Rhetorical Agendas
Political, Ethical, Spiritual
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
This edited collection offers a broad consideration of contemporary rhetorical scholarship, tied to political, ethical, and spiritual themes. Originating from the 2004 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, the contents of this volume reflects the conference themes of rhetorical agendas in...
Deliberative Acts
Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising conflicts require innovative understandings of decision making. Deliberative Acts develops a new, cogent theory of performative deliberation. Rather...
Rhetorics of Whiteness
Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018
With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a...
by Wolfgang Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Although Wolfgang Schneider’s Grammatik des biblischen Hebräisch: Ein Lehrbuch serves primarily as an introductory textbook to biblical Hebrew, it makes an invaluable contribution to the text-linguistic study of Hebrew Bible. Schneider’s understanding of narrative syntax and discourse linguistics...
How to Talk Teen
From Asshat to Zup, the Totes Awesome Dictionary of Teenage Slang
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOTHER'S DAY, 26 MARCH!
What's ILL in one place can be WACK in another, or the same word can actually have TOTES different meanings. It's CRAY CRAY!
From KEWL girls hitting on HENCH boys to wannabe gangstas hangin' with their DOGGS in the ENDZ, teen slang can leave...
Urban Renewal and Resistance
Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines insights from critical geography,...
Modern Occult Rhetoric
Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse.
The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets of the practice of mysticism or magic. This book broadens our understanding of the occult by treating it as...
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
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Published posthumously, The Art of Controversy is one of the most popular books written by Arthur Schopenhauer. It provides us with invaluable advice on how we should go about winning a debate or argument.
Cheers!
1,024 Toasts & Sentiments for Every Occasion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Cheers! is an indispensable A-to-Z of warm, funny, erudite, and sentimental sayings forevery possible occasion. Organized by category, Cheers! is more than a list of notable quotes and memorable toasts. It is full of useful advice on how to prepare a personalized message using the sayings in the book;...
7 Ready to Use Speeches that Honour Life’s Occasions
Birthdays & Christenings
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A few well chosen words shared makes any occasion special. If you have plans to say a speech or have been asked to say a few words at a birthday party, naming day or christening, this is the book for you. With 7 Ready to Use Speeches that Honour Life’s Occasions: Birthdays and Christenings, you can...
Literally, the Best Language Book Ever
Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
By turns gleefully precise and happily contrarian, this is a highly opinionated guide to better communication. In Literally, the Best Language Book Ever, author Paul Yeager attacks with a linguistic scalpel the illogical expressions and misappropriated meanings that are so commonplace and annoying....
by Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the effects of racism on contemporary...