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Words Fail Us - In Defence of Disfluency (Hardcover, Main) Loot Price: R573
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Words Fail Us - In Defence of Disfluency (Hardcover, Main): Jonty Claypole

Words Fail Us - In Defence of Disfluency (Hardcover, Main)

Jonty Claypole

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In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking.

But what if hyper-fluency is not only unachievable but undesirable?

Jonty Claypole spent fifteen years of his life in and out of extreme speech therapy. From sessions with child psychologists to lengthy stuttering boot camps and exposure therapies, he tried everything until finally being told the words he'd always feared: 'We can't cure your stutter.' Those words started him on a journey towards not only making peace with his stammer but learning to use it to his advantage. Here, Jonty argues that our obsession with fluency could be hindering, rather than helping, our creativity, authenticity and persuasiveness. Exploring other speech conditions, such as aphasia and Tourette's, and telling the stories of the 'creatively disfluent' - from Lewis Carroll to Somerset Maugham and Ludwig Wittgenstein - Jonty explains why it's time for us to stop making sense, get tongue tied and embrace the life-changing power of inarticulacy.

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Imprint: Wellcome Collection
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Jonty Claypole
Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 352
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-1-78816-171-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality
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Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > Speech & language disorders & therapy
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LSN: 1-78816-171-8
Barcode: 9781788161718

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