Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Modularity and the Motor theory of Speech Perception
Proceedings of A Conference To Honor Alvin M. Liberman
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
A compilation of the proceedings of a conference held to honor Alvin M. Liberman for his outstanding contributions to research in speech perception, this volume deals with two closely related and controversial proposals for which Liberman and his colleagues at Haskins Laboratories have argued forcefully...
Mind, Brain, and Language
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
Much of the groundbreaking work in many fields is now occurring at the intersection of traditional academic disciplines. This development is well demonstrated in this important and unique volume, which offers a multidisciplinary view of current findings and cutting-edge issues involving the relationship...
by Agnieszka Sowinska
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This book focuses on values and valuation in the State of the Union addresses delivered by the former U.S. President George W. Bush. What values are invoked in the speeches? How are these values constructed? How can they be classified? How are particular construals of values conducive to the actions...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
To a degree unknown in practically any other discipline, the pedagogical space afforded composition is the institutional engine that makes possible all other theoretical and research efforts in the field of rhetoric and writing. But composition has recently come under attack from many within the field...
Claiming the Bicycle
Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself. In Claiming the Bicycle, Sarah Hallenbeck argues...
Participatory Critical Rhetoric
Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Studying Rhetoric In Situ
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Increasingly, rhetorical scholars are using fieldwork and other ethnographic, performance, and qualitative methods to access, document, and analyze forms of everyday in situ rhetoric rather than using already documented texts. In this book, the authors argue that participatory critical rhetoric, as...
Building a Social Democracy
The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism...
Academic Advancement in Composition Studies
Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This volume deals with a number of related issues that are becoming increasingly crucial for English studies during this time when most faculty in the field are assistant professors approaching tenure review or associate professors seeking promotion. These critical issues focus on:
* The diversity...
Rhetoric at the Non-Substantialistic Turn
The East-West Coin
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Rhetoric at the Non-Substantialistic Turn: The East-West Coin presents a unique theory of rhetoric that encompasses both Eastern and Western approaches. Based on the Field-Being philosophy founded by Lik Kuen Tong, this theory gives an account of the ontological foundations of both kinds of rhetoric....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Race, Rhetoric, and Technology
Searching for Higher Ground
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean. He argues that African American rhetorical traditions--the...
Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric
Current Conversations and Contemporary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges facing the study of rhetoric today.
With...
Equipment for Living
The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke is the largest collection of Burke's book reviews, most of them reprinted here for the first time. In these reviews, as he engages famous works of poetry, fiction, criticism, and social science from the early 20th century, Burke demonstrates the prominent methods and interests of his influential career.
by Kenneth Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955. ESSAYS TOWARD A SYMBOLIC OF MOTIVES, 1950¬-1955 contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy, which began with A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). In these essays-some of which appear...