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This book looks at the discursive construction of European
identities in a variety of institutional and non-institutional
contexts and through a variety of social and political actors. Its
multilevel and interdisciplinary approach - rooted in the
Discourse-Historical tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis -
allows for a comparison of identity constructions at different
levels of Europe's social and political organisation and in
different modes of communication. The book analyses discourses as
diverse as those of the EU politicians, of Europe's national media
as well as of migrants living in Europe. It offers a set of
integrated models and analytical procedures which bring to the fore
the inherent dynamism and complexity of both 'bottom-up' and
'top-down' European identity constructions.
Public speaking is an integral skill not only in study but in life,
yet giving presentations, oral assessments, or even talking in
groups is a terrifying prospect for many students. This book is
filled with tips and tricks cultivated through Rob Grieve's
experience in running public speaking workshops at university.
Taking the fear out of public speaking at university, he teaches
you how to develop your public speaking skills and build your
confidence; so whether you're giving a presentation or just talking
with friends you can face the situation without fear. With a unique
focus on 'authenticity' over perfection, Stand Up and be Heard:
Helps you identify and understanding your fear; what is it that you
are most afraid of? How does this fear manifest Provides practical
exercises and strategies that will help you manage your fear
Teaches you the benefits of 'authentic' speaking and relying on
your own voice and personality Offers checklists, step-by-step
guidance and student testimonials to support your growth. The
Student Success series are essential guides for students of all
levels. From how to think critically and write great essays to
planning your dream career, the Student Success series helps you
study smarter and get the best from your time at university.
This revised and updated edition of "Modern German Pronunciation"
offers the most complete guide to the correct pronunciation of
German for native speakers of English. It begins with an
introduction to the problems of pronunciation and the basic
concepts of phonetics. The following chapters take each aspect of
pronunciation in turn: consonants, vowels, stress and intonation,
and the conversational pronunciation of German with its many
reduced or "weak" forms. The text is comprehensively illustrated
with clear pronunciation and intonation diagrams and the emphasis
is on the problems that speakers of English are known to encounter
when learning to speak German. This second edition has been revised
and updated, taking into account comments and suggestions from
readers and adapting the German texts to the new official spelling.
A significant new feature is the discussion of English-speaking
learners of German has been extended to include American learners,
reflecting the use world-wide of the first edition of this
volume.
From two leading scholars in the field comes this landmark
assessment of the shifting terrain of feminist rhetorical practices
in recent decades. Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gesa E. Kirsch
contend the field of rhetorical studies is being transformed
through the work of feminist rhetoricians who have brought about
notable changes in who the subjects of rhetorical study can be, how
their practices can be critiqued, and how the effectiveness and
value of the inquiry frameworks can be articulated. To
contextualize a new and changed landscape for narratives in the
history of rhetoric, Royster and Kirsch present four critical terms
of engagement--critical imagination, strategic contemplation,
social circulation, and globalization--as the foundation for a new
analytical model for understanding, interpreting, and evaluating
feminist rhetorical inquiry and the study and teaching of rhetoric
in general. This model draws directly on the wealth of knowledge
and understanding gained from feminist rhetorical practices,
especially sensitivity toward meaningfully and respectfully
rendering the work, lives, cultures, and traditions of historical
and contemporary women in rhetorical scholarship. Proposing
ambitious new standards for viewing and valuing excellence in
feminist rhetorical practice, Royster and Kirsch advocate an ethos
of respect and humility in the analysis of communities and specific
rhetorical performances neglected in rhetorical history, recasting
rhetorical studies as a global phenomenon rather than a western
one. They also reflect on their own personal and professional
development as researchers as they highlight innovative feminist
research over the past thirty years to articulate how feminist work
is changing the field and pointing to the active participation of
women in various discourse arenas and to the practices and genres
they use. Valuable to new and established scholars of rhetoric,
"Feminist Rhetorical Practice: New Horizons for Rhetoric,
Composition, and Literacy Studies "is essential for understanding
the theoretical, methodological, and ethical impacts of feminist
rhetorical studies on the wider field.
This book provides a practical and theoretical look at how media
education can make learning and teaching more meaningful and
transformative. This second edition includes more resources,
photographs, and updated information as well as two new chapters:
one exploring the pedagogical potential for using photography in
the classroom and the other documenting a successful university
course on critical media literacy for new teachers. The book
explores the theoretical underpinnings of critical media literacy
and analyzes a case study involving an elementary school that
received a federal grant to integrate media literacy and the arts
into the curriculum. Combining cultural studies with critical
pedagogy, critical media literacy aims to expand the notion of
literacy to include different forms of mass communication,
information communication technologies, and popular culture, as
well as deepen the potential of education to critically analyze
relationships between media and audiences, information, and power.
This book is a valuable addition to any education course or teacher
preparation program that wants to promote twenty-first century
literacy skills, social justice, civic participation, media
education, or critical uses of technology. Communications classes
will also find it useful as it explores and applies key concepts of
cultural studies and media education.
Fred Rogers is an American cultural and media icon, whose
children's television program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, ran for
more than thirty years (1967-2001) on the Public Broadcasting
System (PBS). In this highly original book, Alexandra C. Klaren
shows how Rogers captured the moral, social, and emotional
imaginations of multiple generations of Americans. She explores the
nuanced complexity of the thought behind the man and the program,
the dialogical integration of his various influences, and the
intentional ethic of care behind the creation of a program that
spoke to the affective, socio-cultural, and educational needs of
children (and adults) during a period of cultural upheaval. Richly
informed by newly available archival materials, On Becoming
Neighbors chronicles the evolution of Rogers' thought on
television, children, pedagogy, and the family through a
rhetorical, cultural, and ethical lens. Klaren probes how Rogers
creates the conditions for dialogue in which participants explore
possibilities and questions relating to the social and material
world.
This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African
American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCA Home
with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the
everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to
highlight the epiphanic moments when the imagined and real body
converge or collide. To date, there are no books devoted
exclusively to black women that integrate performance
auto/ethnography and media studies from a hip hop feminist
perspective. This book serves as a three-sided intervention against
a textually dominated feminist media studies, a white-centered
feminist third wave theory, and a masculinist hip hop cultural
project. Aisha S. Durham not only reclaims her voice in these three
spaces, she also rewrites her hip hop history by returning to the
intellectual, cultural, and physical places she calls home. The
book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students interested
in media and cultural studies, race and ethnic studies, and gender
and sexuality studies.
The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment
when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch
relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of
Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West.
The author argues that the discourse used by the media in different
social contexts reflected the diversity of ideologies and cultural
values with which the Olympic flame was imbued. A corpus-based
Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis
(DHA-CDA) is applied to media discourse in the United Kingdom and
in China to examine the complexity, contradiction and conflicts in
linguistic interpretations of Olympic ideology. Corpora drawn from
the China Daily, BBC News and The Guardian are described,
interpreted in their linguistic contexts, and then explained in
terms of the broader historical and socio-political contexts
surrounding the dynamic life of the Olympic torch relay. This
unique study sheds light on the significance of the Olympic Games
for East-West media discourse and analysis.
Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives examines the spontaneous
actions of ordinary people, caught up in extraordinary events, who
felt compelled to adopt the role of a news reporter. This
collection of twenty-one original, thought-provoking chapters
investigates citizen journalism in the West, including the United
States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia, as well as its
development in a variety of other national contexts around the
globe, including Brazil, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Kenya,
Palestine, South Korea, Vietnam, and even Antarctica. It engages
with several of the most significant topics for this important area
of inquiry from fresh, challenging perspectives. Its aim is to
assess the contribution of citizen journalism to crisis reporting,
and to encourage new forms of dialogue and debate about how it may
be improved in future.
Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on «me,
flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling
workshops. The resulting digital stories could be called
«mediatized stories. This book deals with these
self-representational stories, aiming to understand the
transformations in the age-old practice of storytelling that have
become possible with the new, digital media. Its approach is
interdisciplinary, exploring how the mediation or mediatization
processes of digital storytelling can be grasped and offering a
sociological perspective of media studies and a socio-cultural take
of the educational sciences. Aesthetic and literary perspectives on
narration as well as questioning from an informatics perspective
are also included.
Most people have to speak in public sometime during their life.
Even if their working life doesn't require it, most are likely to
face an audience for social events such as weddings and funerals.
Why is public speaking so scary for so many? The fear of failure
can increase the worry factor exponentially, making the process
stressful to the point that many simply refuse to do it. The key to
gaining the confidence to overcome fear, says author Drew Provan,
is thorough, methodical preparation. In "Public Speaking in Easy
Steps, " he takes readers through each step of the process: the
initial invitation, planning the speech so the underlying message
is crystal clear, using props or audiovisual equipment, planning
for the day, and establishing an identity as a composed and assured
speaker. "Public Speaking in Easy Steps" shows reluctant readers
how to give a successful speech that is relaxed and enjoyable for
both speaker and audience.
bell hooks' writings have been touchstones for major debates in the
"culture wars", fostering insight into many central questions in
communication studies. Her work is vital to students and scholars
who explore the ways in which media shape our sense of our selves,
our roles, and those with whom we interact. This book provides
readers with a measured, contextualized introduction to how hooks'
writings on media and culture enhance our understanding of key
concepts in communication. hooks' insistence on focusing our
attention on the workings of power and the impact of history and
her willingness to explore connections between individual and group
experiences have produced provocative, fruitful conjectures about
media and culture.
A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of
technologies and rhetorical practice. Rhetorical Machines addresses
new approaches to studying computational processes within the
growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is
often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores
the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code
engages. In so doing, it argues that computation is in fact rife
with the values of those who create it and thus has powerful
ethical and moral implications. From Socrates's critique of writing
in Plato's Phaedrus to emerging new media and internet culture, the
scholars assembled here provide insight into how computation and
rhetoric work together to produce social and cultural effects. This
multidisciplinary volume features contributions from
scholar-practitioners across the fields of rhetoric, computer
science, and writing studies. It is divided into four main
sections: ""Emergent Machines"" examines how technologies and
algorithms are framed and entangled in rhetorical processes,
""Operational Codes"" explores how computational processes are used
to achieve rhetorical ends, ""Ethical Decisions and Moral
Protocols"" considers the ethical implications involved in
designing software and that software's impact on computational
culture, and the final section includes two scholars' responses to
the preceding chapters. Three of the sections are prefaced by brief
conversations with chatbots (autonomous computational agents)
addressing some of the primary questions raised in each section. At
the heart of these essays is a call for emerging and established
scholars in a vast array of fields to reach interdisciplinary
understandings of human-machine interactions. This innovative work
will be valuable to scholars and students in a variety of
disciplines, including but not limited to rhetoric, computer
science, writing studies, and the digital humanities.
This study explores the field of ESL (English as a Second Language)
classroom learning within a formal learning institution. Influenced
by the sociocultural theory in SLA (Second Language Acquisition),
the book sheds light on the question that has been boggling the
minds of language practitioners and researchers: Why is ESL
classroom talk the way it is? Based on a case study of a school in
an ESL community, it argues persuasively that classroom talk may be
linked in important ways to an operative sociocultural structure of
ESL pedagogy over and above the classroom at the institutional
level. The book examines issues which have here-to-fore been
avoided by writers and researchers in current SLA writings and
classroom studies. It confronts complex and complicated contextual
and research methodological issues to make visible what has up to
now been that elusive « structure behind the oral practices in
language classrooms. Research methods are drawn from language
education and several disciplines within linguistics and the social
sciences. Emerging from a multidisciplinary methodological
framework are a number of surprising revelations about the meanings
and functions of ESL classroom talk.
Learn to speak Italian as fluently as Italians do-an indispensable
guide, now with a timely new chapter on remote communication
Whether you're learning Italian now at an intermediate level or
looking to brush up on your Italian conversational skills, Practice
Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation offers a unique and effective
way to learn to speak the language fluently and spontaneously.
You'll get a handle on sentence building right away, through
extensive exercises that let you practice what you've learned
through engaging dialogues and numerous real-life examples. Based
on the successful approach of the Practice Makes Perfect series,
Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation, Premium Third Edition
is organized around 11 units that present specific conversational
functions, from Striking Up a Conversation to Giving Opinions, each
exemplified with short dialogues that are also available as audio
recordings via app. The units provide you the opportunity not
simply to converse, but to build and support your knowledge of the
language with essential instruction on correct pronunciation,
grammar, syntax and word usage. Proven approach to learning helps
you get a handle on Italian conversation right away, and build on
your learnings as you go Supported by audio recordings, via app, of
all 60 dialogues, plus numerous exercise answers 850 exercise
questions help you practice what you've learned through dialogues
and practical examples A special conversational "markers" table in
the index shows important elements of conversation that have no
exact equivalents in English NEW: Includes a timely chapter on
remote communication (video conferencing)
El Arte de Hablar en Publico, esta basado en la experiencia de mas
de setenta anos del Curso de Relaciones Humanas de Dale Carnegie,
con el fin de descartar lo trivial e ir directamente al centro del
proceso de la comunicacion, autententica y reveladora expresion de
la personalidad. Cuando no somos aptos para decir claramente lo que
queremos decir, a causa del nerviosismo, la timidez o los nebulosos
procesos del pensamiento, nuestra personalidad queda expuesta al
bloqueo, a la confusion, y a la incomprension. Este libro esta
construido a partir de tres principios basicos de Dale Carnegie:
Saber que decir, decirlo con conviccion, decirlo vivida y
claramente. Este libro le sera de utilidad: * Para convencer a un
grupo de escepticos acerca de las conveniencia de determinado punto
de vista * Para que aprendamos la manera en que debe explicarse una
materia compleja * Para ofrecer una idea en una reunion comunal *
Para convencer a un agente de ventas de que su producto es el mejor
* Para conversar con fluidez con una amistad reciente * Para
"vender" una gran idea * Para persuadir a un grupo de entrar en
accion * Para entrar en conversion con un grupo de extranjeros, y
mucho mas...
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