Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Rhetoric in the Flesh
Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise and how they shape participants’ perceptions of the human body. By investigating...
by Barry S. Brummett
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
“An accessible introduction to contemporary rhetorical theory and its applications in everyday life.”
—Cory Brewster, Eastern Oregon University
**Rhetoric in Popular Culture, Fifth Edition,**shows you how to apply growing and cutting-edge methods of critical studies to a full spectrum...
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Nonverbal Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Michael's first collection of poetry brings together pieces that were originally published as if they were separate poems, revealing for the first time the exact order of reading and narrative structure of the larger work she has been working on. If you have seen her work in The Spoon Knife Anthology, Barking...
by Richard Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The book examines poetry’s visual and formal dimensions, applying framing theory to such case studies as Aristotle’s Poetics and Robert Lowell’s "The...
Cultures of Forgery
Making Nations, Making Selves
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.
by Jason Edward Black
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government’s rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native–US relations throughout the nineteenth century’s removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US government...
STYLISTICS OF POETRY
A PRACTICAL APPROACH
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Stylistics is a branch of Applied Linguistics and deals with the various levels of language graphological/phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic/discourse. In this book, each level is lucidly explained with relevant theoretical concepts, and they are practically applied to two poems as model-exercises....
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village
Selected Papers From the 1998 Thirtieth Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address...
by Shawn J. Parry-Giles, David S. Kaufer
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Republicans and Democrats who advocated conflicting visions of American citizenship could agree on one thing: the rhetorical power of Abraham Lincoln’s life. This volume examines the debates over his legacy and their impact on America’s future.
In the...
by Clay Spinuzzi, Carl G. Herndl, S. Scott Graham
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, Bruno Latour has inspired scholarship across many disciplines. In the past few years, the fields of rhetoric and composition have witnessed an explosion of interest in Latour’s work. Editors Paul Lynch and...
Eros at Dusk
Ancient Wedding and Love Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the classical world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs...
Writing for the Web
Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Writing for the Web unites theory, technology, and practice to explore writing and hypertext for website creation. It integrates such key topics as XHTML/CSS coding, writing (prose) for the Web, the rhetorical needs of the audience, theories of hypertext, usability and architecture, and the basics...
The Multimediated Rhetoric of the Internet
Digital Fusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This project is a critical, rhetorical study of the digital text we call the Internet, in particular the style and figurative surface of its many pages as well as the conceptual, design patterns structuring the content of those same pages. Handa argues that as our lives become increasingly digital,...
On the End of Privacy
Dissolving Boundaries in a Screen-Centric World
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
In preparation for this book, and to better understand our screen-based, digital world, Miller only accessed information online for seven years.
On the End of Privacy explores how literacy is transformed by online technology that lets us instantly publish anything that we can see or hear. Miller examines...