Offers practical coverage of all the topics and skills that you need to give polished speeches and presentations in your speech class and beyond. This edition includes essential advice on using digital tools and presenting online.
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A practical guide to understanding and investigating the multiple modes of communication, verbal and non-verbal. Sets out clear methodology to help readers conduct their own analysis and includes many real examples.
With topics ranging from censorship of the internet to genetic engineering, this work offers a unique and invaluable practical guide to current controversies, providing material on a wide range of subject areas.
Voice: Onstage and Off is a comprehensive guide to the process of building, mastering, and fine-tuning the voice for performance. Every aspect of vocal work is covered, from the initial speech impulse and the creation of sound, right through to refining the final product in diff…
Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However, a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few …
"Drawing upon nearly two hundred years of recorded African American oratory, The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches, edited by Richard W. Leeman and Bernard K. Duffy, brings together in one unique volume some of this tradition's most notewo…
Gesture is integral to human language. Its function within human communication is as much goal-directed, and subsequently as communicative, as is speech. Indeed, gesture and speech share the same cognitive, psychological and physiological roots. Although the study of gesture has…
Dieses Wörterbuch stellt ein Kompendium unseres gesamten aktuellen Wissens über die Rhetorik dar. In etwa 1300 ausführlichen Artikeln werden die rhetorischen Fachtermini und ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung systematisch erklärt. Dieses interdisziplinär angelegte Werk liefert dem …
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Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated re…
This book proposes an original policy framework for addressing hate speech. Gelber argues that a policy designed to provide support to affected groups and communities to enable them to speak back when hate speech occurs, is a more useful way of addressing the harms of hate speec…
Main description: The so-called 'adventurous Dietrich' epics have survived in a number of very different versions. This monograph examines the 'Virginal' and 'Laurin' stories and develops a method that makes it possible to understand the differences between the versions independ…