Selected from a diverse field of speakers and venues, this volume offers some of the most engaging American speeches of the year. Distinguished by its diversity, covering areas in politics, education, popular culture, as well as trending topics in the news, these speeches provide an interesting format to explore some of the year's most important stories.
This volume is a compilation of the year's most notable speeches from politics, business, and academia gives a concise snapshot of the year's most significant issues, including Health Care Reform, Disarmament and Arms Control and Financial and Regulatory Reform.
Gendered Relationships
This collection of contributed articles by prominent scholars from a range of disciplines addresses the intersection of gender communication and interpersonal relationships.
El presente libro en honor al Profesor Rolf Eberenz reune veintiun articulos sobre una de las tematicas que el homenajeado ha explorado por caminos poco transitados: la oralidad en los textos antiguos. Siguiendo la senda abierta por sus Conversaciones estrechamente vigiladas. Interaccion coloquial y espanol oral en las actas inquisitoriales de los siglos XV a XVII (Lausana/Zaragoza, 2003), el presente volumen no solo diversifica los generos de las fuentes escritas no literarias, sino que ademas...
Geschichte(n) Fiktional Und Faktual
Die Beitrage des Bandes gehen auf eine Tagung in Budapest zuruck, die im September 2014 stattgefunden hat. Gemeinsames, erkenntnisleitendes Thema ist die Frage nach "Sprachlichen Konstruktionen von Geschichte zwischen Faktualitat und Fiktionalitat" mit besonderem Blick auf Umbruchs- und Krisenzeiten. Die literaturwissenschaftlichen Beitrage analysieren und interpretieren Texte vom fruhen 20. Jahrhundert bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, in denen kunstlerische, politische, ideologische und gesellschaftlic...
COMMUNICATION IN OUR LIVES, Seventh Edition, provides everything you need to strengthen your interpersonal, group, public speaking, and media literacy skills-and demonstrates the value of communication in your life. Award-winning, forward-thinking scholar Julia T. Wood focuses on helping you develop vital communication skills while exploring the latest research and theory of today's most prominent communication scholars, including current developments in cultural and social diversity and the imp...
Psychologic is a formal system and relationship within which psychological processes are defined. The language people ordinarily use to formulate, think, and talk about psychological phenomena is organized by Jan Smedslund into a set of propositions aimed at identifying the generalities which underlie human behavior. In this way, psychologic illuminates the conceptual system of psychology embedded in ordinary language. This book continues Professor Smedslund's search for stable theoretical struc...
How we speak, what we speak and the impact of the spoken word is the story Patsy Rodenburg tells in this companion volume to her bestselling first book, The Right to Speak, her "Owner's Manual of the Voice." Rodenburg's humane attitude toward her reader and her keen awareness of the anxiety of amateur speakers set this work apart from other books on the voice. She first addresses each of the obstacles which prevent access to language and offers ways to overcome them. Part Two includes "Working w...
Morphoaccentologie Et Processus d'Affixation de l'Anglais
by Ives Trevian
Will sits and watches the world go by, feeling all alone. Will he be alone forever? This picture book targets the /w/ sound and is part of Speech Bubbles 2, a series of picture books that target specific speech sounds within the story. The series can be used for children receiving speech therapy, for children who have a speech sound delay/disorder, or simply as an activity for children's speech sound development and/or phonological awareness. They are ideal for use by parents, teachers or care...
Zack just wants to find other bees that look like him - and he meets some interesting and different kinds of bees along the way. This picture book targets the /z/ sound and is part of Speech Bubbles 2, a series of picture books that target specific speech sounds within the story. The series can be used for children receiving speech therapy, for children who have a speech sound delay/disorder, or simply as an activity for children's speech sound development and/or phonological awareness. They a...
Asher the thresher shark is very shy. Will it stop him from being a hero? This picture book targets the /sh/ sound and is part of Speech Bubbles 2, a series of picture books that target specific speech sounds within the story. The series can be used for children receiving speech therapy, for children who have a speech sound delay/disorder, or simply as an activity for children's speech sound development and/or phonological awareness. They are ideal for use by parents, teachers or caregivers....
Common Core: Elements of Literature, Grades 6 - 8
by Linda Armstrong
Cognition and the Symbolic Processes
This volume is a festschrift dedicated to James J. Jenkins, a pioneer in many areas of experimental psychology. It has three major goals: to provide a forum for debate on current theoretical issues in cognitive psychology, to capture the "state of the art" in reviews of research methods and results, and to generate ideas for new research directions and methodologies. Contributors -- including Jenkins' former students and present colleagues -- ponder fundamental questions such as: * How do peopl...
Looseleaf for Research Methods in Psychology
by John J Shaughnessy, Eugene B Zechmeister, and Jeanne S Zechmeister