Public speaking remains a nerve-racking experience for even the most frequent practitioners. This unique guide is written specifically for the needs of academic presenters, both teachers and students. It combines the principles of effective communication with practical suggestions for success in all types of academic presentation formats including lectures, papers, symposia, speeches, research proposals and conferences.
Opens up a discussion among discourse analysts and others in linguistics and related fields about the two-fold impact of communication technologies: the impact on how discourse data is collected, transcribed, and analyzed - and the impact that these technologies are having on social interaction and discourse.
New Approaches to Rhetoric provides fresh perspectives on the study of rhetoric and its ability to affect change in today's society. Although traditional approaches (e.g., neo-Aristotelian) to the study of rhetoric have utility for the twenty-first century, communication in a complex, mass-mediated postmodern age calls for new critical ......
Shuy provides specific advice in this book a bout how to conduct interrogations that will yield credible evidence. Other topics presented here include the analysis o f how language is used and how constitutional rights are and are not protected. '
Semiotics, the study of the sign systems that constitute human culture, has since its discovery in the late 19th century and early 20th century transformed the ways in which we think about culture and communication. It has opened new areas of study and made fruitful connections between established disciplines This four volume set offers the most extensive, systematic and in-depth survey of the foundations and development of semiotics as a field. It covers foundational texts in semiotics, from the constitution of the field in the early twentieth century, through its blossoming with the advent of structuralism in the sixties and seventies and the formative dialogue between structuralism and Marxism. It goes on to present a representative selection of central essays in literary semiotics, narratology and poetics, the semiotics of anthropology, myth, art, arhcitecture, music, theatre, film, fashion and other aspects of contemporary culture. Special attention is paid to the development of a poststructuralist, semiotically aware discourse in the analysis of culture and history, to the related areas of deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and to the current controversy over the possibilities and issues raised by a postmodernist semiotics. The anthology offers a unique and valuable research tool for students and scholars alike in all areas of the social sciences and the humanities, among them linguistics, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, literature and media and communications.
Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches to discourse analysis: - Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory - critical discourse analysis - discursive psychology in order to establish a dialogue between ......
Terrorism, jihad, fundamentalism, blowback. These and other highly charged terms have saturated news broadcasts and everyday conversation since September 11th. But to keen ears their meanings change depending upon who's doing the talking. So what do these words really mean? And what are people trying to say when they use them?
Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches to discourse analysis: - Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory - critical discourse analysis - discursive psychology in order to establish a dialogue between ......
This text offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing. Illuminating the range of contemporary approaches with concrete examples, the author's concern is to test theory against practice. He draws a picture of explanation as a social achievement of speaker and audience, involving a balance between delicate manoeuvre and the exercise of discursive power. The book should be of interest to students and lecturers in social psychology, sociolinguistics and communication studies.
