Public Speaking category: 1264 books
by Rebecca J. McCauley
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders. Rebecca McCauley describes specific commonly used tools, as well as general approaches...
Classification of Developmental Language Disorders
Theoretical Issues and Clinical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders. They address the question: How can the child's linguistic environment be restructured so that children at risk can develop important adaptive skills in the domains of self-care,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
How are two or more languages learned and contained in the same mind or the same community? This handbook presents an up-to-date view of the concept of multi-competence, exploring the research questions it has generated and the methods that have been used to investigate it. The book brings together...
Nonverbal Perceptual and Cognitive Processes in Children With Language Disorders
Toward A New Framework for Clinical intervention
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
A growing body of literature is suggesting that many children with language disorders and delays--even those with so-called specific language impairment--have difficulties in other domains as well. In this pathbreaking book, the authors draw on more than 40 years of research and clinical observations...
Teaching Academic Literacy
The Uses of Teacher-research in Developing A Writing Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Teaching Academic Literacy provides a unique outlook on a first-year writing program's evolution by bringing together a group of related essays that analyze, from various angles, how theoretical concepts about writing actually operate in real students' writing. Based on the beginning writing program...
Discursive Framings of Human Rights
Negotiating Agency and Victimhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human rights discourse, in differing aesthetic and social...
Korero Tahi
Talking Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
A small book, this is a successor to the author’s extremely successful Talking Past Each Other and suggests ways of managing group discussion by drawing on Maori protocol. A practical guide in a wide range of contexts, it also has wider implications for the society as a whole.
The Science of Writing
Theories, Methods, Individual Differences and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Conceived as the successor to Gregg and Steinberg's Cognitive Processes in Writing, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to writing research. The authors describe their current thinking and data in such a way that readers in psychology, English, education, and linguistics will find it readable...
Intentions
Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on intention and offers a new framework for understanding the negotiation of meaning. It describes...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Social Justice and Communication Scholarship explores the role of communication in framing and contributing to issues of social justice. This collection, a first on the subject of communication and social justice, investigates the theoretical and practical ways in which communication scholarship can...
Reality By Design
The Rhetoric and Technology of Authenticity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
In the first paragraphs of this volume, the author identifies an "authenticity paradox": that the purported real-worldedness of a learning environment, technique, or task is so rhetorically potent that educators frequently call attention to it in pedagogical conversations to legitimize their...
Addressing Postmodernity
Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.
In Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studiessurveys the latest advances in rhetorical scholarship, synthesizing theories and practices across major areas of study in the field and pointing the way for future studies. Edited by Andrea A. Lunsford and Associate Editors Kirt H. Wilson and Rosa A. Eberly,...
Image Politics
The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming...