Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Talking with Your Toddler
75 Fun Activities and Interactive Games that Teach Your Child to Talk
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A HANDY PARENT'S GUIDE THAT TURNS PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT INTO CHILD'S PLAY
Are you concerned that your child is not verbalizing? The solution may be as simple as a game. Talking with Your Toddler teaches you how to stimulate speech using everyday play. It makes learning to talk fun...
Children's Language
Volume 7
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This volume presents current research findings on vital issues in language development compiled by an international group of leading researchers. The data are drawn from studies of the acquisition of Swedish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Themes emphasized in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This volume addresses salient theoretical issues concerning the validity of research methods in second-language acquisition, and provides critical analysis of contextualized versus sentence-level production approaches. The contributors present their views of competence versus performance, the nature...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Much of the work currently conducted within the framework of Universal Grammar and language learnability focuses on the acquisition of syntax. However, the learnability issues are just as applicable to the domain of phonology. This volume is the first to gather research that assumes a sophisticated...
Newspeak (Routledge Revivals)
A Dictionary of Jargon
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald the year 1984, Jonathon Green compiled nearly 8, 000 entries – selected from the slangs and...
Jean Baudrillard
The Rhetoric of Symbolic Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Jean Baudrillard has been studied as sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. Brian Gogan establishes him as a rhetorician, demonstrating how the histories, traditions, and practices of rhetoric prove central to his use of language. In addition to Baudrillard’s...
by Vivette Milson-Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Given its highly comparative natuare, its comprehensive examination of curricular practices that can be adapted in other institutions and its practical suggestions for dismantling writing myths and adopting a progressive view of writing, Academic Writing Instruction invites academids and administrators...
The Monstrous Discourse in the Donald Trump Campaign
Implications for National Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The Monstrous Discourse in the Donald Trump Campaign: Implications for National Discourse provides a lens through which to explore the implications of the monster metaphor as applied to Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Analyzing the overt and buried usages of the monster metaphor in the...
by Sara DeTurk
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The longevity of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas, suggests that it is possible for a social change organization to simultaneously address racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, imperialism, environmental justice, and peace—and to succeed. Activism, Alliance Building,...
Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literacy
Selected Papers From the 1994 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This volume presents a representative cross-section of the more than 200 papers presented at the 1994 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. The contributors reflect multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives -- English, speech communication, philosophy, rhetoric, composition studies, comparative...
The Wedding Officiant's Guide
How to Write and Conduct a Perfect Ceremony
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Last year, one in three American weddings were officiated by a friend or family member. With the officiating trend on the rise, novice officiants need a resource to guide them. In The Wedding Officiant's Guide, interfaith minister Lisa Francesca breaks down the entire officiating process, from becoming...
Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form
Sighting Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly...
Authorship Contested
Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This volume explores a dimension of authorship not given its due in the critical discourse to this point—authorship contested. Much of the existing critical literature begins with a text and the proposition that the text has an author. The debates move from here to questions about who the author...
by Kwesi Yankah
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Attracting renewed attention by a new generation of scholars, the book presents a comprehensive ethnography of proverb communication in an African culture and achieves a significant breakthrough in proverb studies. The author critically reviews the dynamics of the proverb, one verbal genre that embodies...