Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Public Speaking & Speech Writing

Through Narrative Theory, the book offers an engaging panorama of the construction of specialised discourses and practices within academia and diverse professional communities. Its chapters investigate genres from various fields, such as aircraft accident reports, clinical cases and other scientific observations, academic conferences, academic blogs, climate-change reports, university decision-making in public meetings, patients' oral and written accounts of illness, corporate annual reports, journalistic obituaries,...

The volume focuses on the evidence of scenic art present in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria to verify its influence on the education of the speaker.The enquiry will also make reference to all Greek and Latin sources useful in highlighting the mutual dependence between oratory and theater from the fifth century B.C. to the second century A.D. The most important area of investigation concerns the teaching of comoedus, master of diction and gestures. The fields of specialization and methods configured by Quintilian recall in detail the training process followed by...

In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term "hate speech" as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral struggle in public deliberation. This empirical study of gyűloletbeszed, or "hate speech," in Hungary documents competing meanings of the term, the interpretive strategies used to generate those competing meanings, and the parallel moral systems that inspire political actors to question their opponents' interpretations. In contrast to most existing treatments of the subject, Boromisza-Habashi's argument does not rely on...

Begleitend zur Edition der Commenta in Ciceronis Rhetorica (BT) werden hier Prolegomena und kritischer Kommentar vorgelegt. Der erste Band beschreibt erstmals alle erhaltenen Textzeugen, beleuchtet ihre stemmatischen Verwandtschaftsverhaltnisse und verfolgt die Rezeptionsgeschichte des Textes von der Spatantike bis in die Neuzeit. Der zweite Band begrundet die Wahl von Varianten und Konjekturen in der Edition und enthalt umfangreiche Indices.