Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Writing against Racial Injury
The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider...
by EDITORIAL BOARD
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In today's competitive world, Spoken English is considered as a passport for a guaranteed success in life. The craze for learning spoken English has led to the growth of various coaching institutes all over the country. Much as they may profess and advertise, it is not really possible to learn any...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent
Feminist Rhetoric and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: she has shifted the rhetorical boundaries of jurisprudence on a wide range of fundamental issues from...
by Jacob Hawk, Michael Whitworth
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
You preach… But you probably wish you could be better. How many Sunday nights have you sat and wished you were a better preacher? How many Friday afternoons have you spent wishing you had crafted a better message for Sunday? You know you'll never be the best preacher in the church, but you sure...
Richer Descriptions
Guide to the Human Senses for Christian Speakers and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
This book is a unique manual that explores all nine human senses in seven chapters for use by Christian speakers and writers. Applications are encouraged by exercises, a speaker's checklist, writing samples, and a writer's guide. Bible references encourage a deeper appreciation of being created by...
A City of Marble
The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate...
The World's Great Sermons
Volume III—Massillon to Mason
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Collections of sermons by noted preachers of different periods are not an altogether uncommon contribution to literature. Italy, Germany, Holland, France, Great Britain and the United States have in this way furnished copious illustrations of the gifts of their illustrious preachers. Such treasures...
Eloquence Is Power
Oratory and Performance in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that flourished in British America and the early...
Battle Exhortation
The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. Battle...
by Michael A. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1996
Proven techniques for getting your point across and winning arguments
If you've ever felt the frustration of losing an argument--even when you knew you were right--to someone more skilled in pressing their point (and your hot buttons), this book is for you. This practical, often amusing guide...
Back to the Blanket
Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven...
Teaching Bodies
Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by directing attention to...
Writing Childbirth
Women’s Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Women seeking to express concerns about childbirth or to challenge institutionalized medicine by writing online birth plans or birth stories exercise rhetorical agency in undeniably feminist ways. In Writing Childbirth: Women’s Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online, author Kim Hensley Owens explores...
You Can't Padlock an Idea
Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932-1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
You Can’t Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democratic social change. Founded in 1932 by educator Myles Horton, the Highlander Folk School sought...