Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Speech & Pronunciation

The thirty years prior to the Civil War were flamboyant and fiery times for the South. People had a passion for political issues and an ear for the lusty oratory that could be heard at any gathering, social or political. In Oratory in the Old South, Waldo Braden and his associates looked past the popular myths of that era and uncovered the true nature of the oratory of the times.

In this sequel to that earlier volume, Braden and seven other speech scholars examine the oratory of accommodation that dominated the southern forum in the post-Civil War years. Speakers of this era, they find,...

Established in 1961 by Alvin A. Goldberg, Franklyn S. Haiman, Mark Klyn, Robert M. O Neil, and George P. Rice to provide a forum for promoting the essential place of free and responsible communication in a democratic society, the "Yearbook "has sought for a quarter-century through articles, essays, and reviews to support the right of peaceful expression by any communicative means available.

Topics covered include points of constitutional law, court cases, government regulation, obscenity, philosophy of communication, and the teaching of communication."

Susan Howell Brubaker has revised the classic "Workbook for Aphasia" to update the language and situations to better serve twenty-first-century patients. Since its first edition in 1978, this highly recognizable "blue book" has been used by speech-language pathologists as a treatment tool both in sessions and as a home-program supplement, with target populations ranging from adults to early adolescents. The exercises encompass basic-to-higher-level tasks addressing reading, graphics, word retrieval, formulation, and a variety of other language skills.

The new edition responds to the...

Far from your typical text on speech education, this delightfully illustrated book encourages lively participation in each activity and focuses on the kinds of exercises that are fun for students of all ages. This full year course of creative assignments will aid preparation for any kind of speaking from formal, research-based presentations to casual retellings of personal experience. Sample activities include rap, pantomime, charades, a game show, readers theatre, TV news, a mock trial, talk show improvisation, and dozens more, including a bonus section of extra activities. The ten...

The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emphasizes poetry's reliance on sound, which is prominent in ethnic American writings, new formalism, and many species of performance and sound-directed poetry, both mainstream and avant-garde. However, voice is also a metaphor for originality, personality, and the illusion of authorial presence within printed poetry meanings that have been particularly useful (and provocative) in literary criticism and creative writing. In Voicing American Poetry,...

The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emphasizes poetry's reliance on sound, which is prominent in ethnic American writings, new formalism, and many species of performance and sound-directed poetry, both mainstream and avant-garde. However, voice is also a metaphor for originality, personality, and the illusion of authorial presence within printed poetry meanings that have been particularly useful (and provocative) in literary criticism and creative writing. In Voicing American Poetry,...

- Includes Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Methods for extracting information from electronic health records and biomedical literature.
- Analyzes text analytic tools for new media such as online forums, social media posts, tweets and video sharing.
- Demonstrates how to use speech and audio technologies for improving access to online content for the visually impaired.

Text Mining of Web-Based Medical Content examines various approaches to deriving high quality information from online biomedical literature, electronic health records, query search terms, social...