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Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest

In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the history of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Sánchez and Pita analyze a range of Chicano/a and Native American novels, films, short stories, and other cultural artifacts from the eighteenth century to the present, showing how Chicano/a works often celebrate an idealized colonial Spanish past as a way to counter stereotypes of Mexican and Indigenous racial and ethnic inferiority. As they demonstrate, these texts often erase the participation of Spanish and Mexican settlers in the dispossession of Indigenous lands. Foregrounding the relationship between literature and settler colonialism, they consider how literary representations of land are manipulated and redefined in ways that point to the changing practices of dispossession. In so doing, Sánchez and Pita prompt critics to reconsider the role of settler colonialism in the deep history of the United States and how spatial and discursive violence are always correlated.

Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)

Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts analyzes the impact migrations, both internal and external, have on Europe’s literary and visual representations in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The volume aims to subvert a centripetal reading of European cultural production by including peripheral thinkers, writers, and visual artists operating in transcultural contexts. The essays highlight and investigate the fertile artistic discourses generated in the spatial peripheries outside of Europe or its inner peripheries. The volume addresses the need for geocritical readings that overcome the engrained dichotomy of centers-peripheries. By doing so, the book brings a more nuanced approach to national literatures and proposes the idea of “contact zones of imaginative interaction”.

Spatiality: Spatiality, Representation, And Narrative (The New Critical Idiom)

Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the ‘spatial turn’ presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history. Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today, providing: An overview of the spatial turn across literary theory, from historicism and postmodernism to postcolonialism and globalization Introductions to the major theorists of spatiality, including Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Erich Auerbach, Georg Lukács, and Fredric Jameson Analysis of critical perspectives on spatiality, such as the writer as map-maker, literature of the city and urban space, and the concepts of literary geography, cartographics and geocriticism. This clear and engaging study presents readers with a thought provoking and illuminating guide to the literature and criticism of ‘space’.

Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistic Landscape (Educational Linguistics #62)

This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array of empirical studies of language, literacy, and culture learning in the linguistic landscape of visible and audible public discourse. Written from conceptually rich and disciplinarily varied perspectives, its ten chapters address methodological and practical problems of relating language learning to the lived and rapidly changing places of the late modern world. Whether it is within the four walls of a school, in a nearby multilingual neighborhood, in a virtual telecollaborative space, or in any other location where languages may be learned, this volume highlights different configurations of learning spaces, the leveraging of real-world places for critical learning, and ways to productively ‘dislocate’ language learners from preconceived notions and standardized experiences. Together, these elements create conditions for a language and literacy pedagogy that can be said to be robustly spatialized: linguistically and culturally complex, geographically situated, historically informed, dialogically realized, and socially engaged.

Spazi Riflessivi in Passeggeri Notturni

Spazi Riflessivi in Passeggeri Notturni è un testo innovativo e versatile per l’insegnamento dell’italiano tramite riflessioni ed elaborazioni su questioni sociali emerse dalla lettura di Passeggeri notturni, racconti brevi di Gianrico Carofiglio. Il testo, indicato per un livello intermedio-avanzato, propone una vasta gamma di esercizi grammaticali contestualizzati e attività interdisciplinari che confrontano letterature e arti diverse e affrontano discussioni socio-culturali.

Speak Love: Your Words Can Change the World

Through funny stories, Scripture, and a Speak Love Revolution challenge that could help you change the lives of every person you see, tweet, or message for the better, Annie F. Downs explores the difference you can make when you speak love to others, to God, and to yourself.This expanded version of Speak Love:Includes 30 daily readings with a relatable topic, a Scripture verse, thoughts from the author, a prayer, and a motivational challenge to say, write, tweet, or post something that will change lives for the betterIs the perfect gift for young women ages 13 and up who are ready to speak love and speak lifeThe question is, are you ready to use the power of your words to make a real difference in the world? With relevant content and 30 bonus devotions, this newly revised edition of Speak Love sparks the perfect motivation to use your powerful and loving voice for good.Start your Speak Love journey today!

Speak Out: A Guide to Middle School Debate

This textbook is designed for beginning and intermediate students participating in the Middle School Public Debate Program (MSPDP). Shuster (director of debate outreach, Claremont McKenna College) and Meany (forensics, Claremont McKenna College) cover topics on the MSPDP program and format, including communication skills, preparation periods, refutation, impacts, and strategies. Appendices are offered and include a judging manual, an issue analysis form, and sample topics.

Speak Up with Confidence: How to Prepare, Learn, and Deliver Effective Speeches

Public speaking is one of the most intimidating and important aspects of many jobs. As a one-time speechwriter for President Johnson, and in his current position as president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Jack Valenti has written and delivered speeches in all kinds of settings. Originally published in 1982, Speak Up with Confidence is an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to write and deliver a speech that people will listen to and remember.

Speak Up!: A Woman's Guide to Presenting Like a Pro

The insider's guide for women who want to master the art of business, professional, and public speakingWhether speaking one-on-one or one to one thousand, women have specific challenges that can get in the way of their ability to convey ideas and engage an audience. Public speaking professionals Cyndi Maxey and Kevin O'Connor give women the tips and tools they need to be able to speak clearly, with confidence and conviction, and present information effectively.In SPEAK UP!, you'll learn how to:Deal with difficult colleaguesSpeak on the spotUse technology in support of your messageSell your ideas with passion and power Connect confidently with your superiorsFor any woman who wants to get her point across, from the boss' office, to the conference room, to a convention center, SPEAK UP! will help you polish your presentation skills, get heard, and get what you want.

Speak Up!: An Illustrated Guide To Public Speaking

Written by professors with 40+ combined years’ experience teaching the course and a competitive background in debate, Speak Up! connects with students through lively writing, compelling real-life examples, practical guidance, and hundreds of custom-drawn illustrations that bring public speaking concepts to life. Instructors will appreciate the book’s serious coverage of concepts and theories, fascinating examples, and unique and often humorous illustrations that help students understand and retain concepts from the text. <p><p> This edition features new illustrations, in full color for the first time; an increased focus on civic engagement throughout; and an all-new version of our Speech Choices case study feature that leads students through all steps of the public speaking process. Video of that student’s final, full-length speech appears in LaunchPad, a comprehensive digital resource to accompany the book, alongside additional speech videos, a new video assessment program powered by GoReact, an adaptive quizzing program, and more.

Speak Up!: An Illustrated Guide to Public Speaking

Speak Up! is a lively but thorough approach to public speaking aimed to support student confidence and successful speeches.

Speak Up: An Illustrated Guide To Public Speaking

Smart, compelling, fun, and affordable,Speak Up connects with students through great writing, useful guidance, and hundreds of custom-drawn illustrations that bring speech to life. Instructors appreciate the book's serious coverage of concepts and theories, fascinating real-life examples, and visual explanations that clarify complex ideas. And all this comes at less than half the price of competing texts.

Speak Up: An Illustrated Guide to Public Speaking

"Speak Up "is a new, brief, and fully illustrated public speaking text that is traditionally organized, affordable, and definitely fun. It combines thorough coverage of classical and contemporary communication theory, practical nuts-and-bolts guidance, and 600+ custom-drawn illustrations that bring speech basics "to life," And if that's not enough, "Speak Up "is priced at about 40% less than traditional introductory texts. Instructors and student reviewers have been raving about it, and your students will love it!

Speak Up: An Illustrated Guide to Public Speaking

Written by professors with 40+ combined years’ experience teaching the course, Speak Up! connects with students through lively writing, compelling real-life examples, practical guidance, and hundreds of custom-drawn illustrations that bring public speaking concepts to life. Instructors appreciate the book's serious coverage of concepts and theories, fascinating examples, and unique and often humorous illustrations that help students understand and retain concepts from the text. The new edition features a brand new case study feature that guides students through all steps of the public speaking process. The Speech Choices boxes follow Mia and Jacob as they make choices that affect the final outcome of their speech—and show students what to do, and what not to do. They culminate in two brand-new, full-length speech videos on cutting edge topics. The feature expands further online in LaunchPad with video clips from the speeches, case study questions, and case study activities that instructors can use in the classroom or assign as homework. Speak Up contains other powerful digital tools accessible through LaunchPad, a learning platform that that contains hundreds of videos, LearningCurve (our adaptive quizzing program), various assessment options, video assignment tools, instructor supplements, and a full e-book.

Speak Without Fear: a Total System for Becoming a Natural, Confident Communicator

For many of us, public speaking is at best a chore marked by great anxiety and at worst a potential career stopper. Ours is a time when the ability to communicate in front of individuals or groups in all types of business and other situations is becoming paramount. Speak Without Fear offers a unique, practical process for combating the stage fright that plagues us every day in these situations. Unlike other books on public speaking, Speak Without Fear goes beyond the external techniques, such as how to breathe properly and keep eye contact, to delve deeply into the reason for your performance anxiety. It gets to the root of what's giving you the sweats so you can identify what's in the way and work through it to communicate naturally and comfortably before audiences of any size. Ivy Naistadt's easy-to-follow, step-by-step program will help you: Identify the degree and type of your nervousness, pinpoint the incidents and issues that, directly or indirectly, cause you fear and loathing in the spotlight, develop and master a technique for over-coming your anxiety that's adaptable to your level of experience and need, and use your new skills to shine in a variety of situations. whether speech making, interviewing, auditioning, or presenting No matter how anxious you are about going before an audience -- any audience, whether it's 1 or 1,000 -- Speak Without Fear will give you the tools to speak powerfully and persuasively.

Speak and Read Chinese: Fun Mnemonic Devices for Remembering Chinese Words and Their Tones

From one of the authors of Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar comes Speak and Read Chinese, a simple, fun guide that helps language learners remember essential Chinese characters.Students and teachers rate character pronunciation and tones the two most difficult aspects of learning Chinese. This book addresses this issue by organizing easy pronunciation and tone memorization tricks for the three hundred most basic characters in popular textbook series like Integrated Chinese and New Practical Chinese Reader.Larry Herzberg did his Master's and PhD work in Chinese Language and Literature at Indiana University. He founded Chinese-language programs at two colleges and has been teaching for thirty years.

Speak for Yourself: Discussing Assumptions (Idioms for Inclusivity)

To get the complete Idioms for Inclusivity experience, this book can be purchased alongside four others as a set, Idioms for Inclusivity: Fostering Belonging with Language, 978-1-032-28635-8. Informed by sociolinguistic research, yet written accessibly, Speak for Yourself challenges readers to investigate the concept of assumptions as it relates to both language-use and inclusivity. This engaging and delightfully illustrated book invites students to engage with concepts such as: the cultural meaning of the idiom "speak for yourself" and how it can act as a helpful warning against harmful assumptions, Presuppositions – a concept developed by linguists to research and understand assumptions in language, why the expectation to "speak for yourself" can make someone feel excluded, and how understanding the way language works can help us learn to be more inclusive. Featuring practical inclusivity tips related to integrating learning into daily conversations, this enriching curriculum supplement can be used in a Language Arts setting to learn about figurative language; in a Social Studies setting to discuss diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; or as an introduction to linguistics for students ages 7-14.

Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation

The ability to speak with confidence and deliver winning presentations can accelerate your career, earn people's respect, and enable you to achieve your greatest goals.Anyone can learn to be a great speaker, just as easily as they can learn to drive a car or ride a bike. As one of the world's premier speakers and personal success experts, Brian Tracy reveals time-tested tricks of the trade that you can use to present powerfully and speak persuasively, whether in an informal meeting or in front of a large audience.In Speak To Win, you will learn how to:become confident, positive, and relaxed in front of any audiencegrab people's attention from the startuse body language, props, and vocal techniques to keep listeners engagedtransition smoothly from one point to the nextuse humor, stories, quotes, and questions skillfullydeal with skepticism when presenting new ideaswrap up strongly and persuasivelyThis no nonsense handbook is perfect for delivering talks that inform, impress, persuade and motivate.Brimming with unbeatable strategies for winning people over every time, Speak To Win lets you in on his most powerful presentation secrets in this indispensable, life-changing guide.

Speak, Memorably: The Art of Captivating an Audience

The media guru and bestselling author of Pitch Perfect helps professionals break away from canned communications and find their true—and most effective—voice no matter the workplace. The business world has adopted the wrong definition of successful communication. For many years, being “on message” was considered the prime directive. The overwhelming majority of professionals today exist in a rigidly narrow range of bland rhetoric, throwing around industry buzzwords and empty jargon to create the impression of business savvy. But when everyone sounds messaged (and the same), no one stands out. And now, with more ways than ever to get your message across, it’s never been harder to communicate clearly and have your message stick.Bill McGowan has devoted more than twenty years to helping people find their distinctive voice. From CEOs to White House staffers to television personalities, he has coached thousands of speakers to make their narrative more memorable and distinctive by breaking free from the challenges preventing them from selling their ideas with conviction, motivating their teams during challenging times, or clearly articulating a company’s mission.Speak, Memorably offers concrete strategies and tools to help anyone, in any stage of their career, cut through the numbing sameness of cliches and boring business rhetoric and find their authentic voice. Inspiring and entertaining, it is a masterclass in interpersonal communication and an inspiring call to action for professionals to break free from forgettable “brand” speak and instead craft thoughtful and memorable messages.

Speak: A Process Approach

NIMAC-sourced textbook <P><P>Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with hundreds of students and faculty, SPEAK2 is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate your diverse lifestyle. SPEAK2 guides you through the speechmaking process with six Speech Plan Action Step activities that prompt you to develop effective speeches. With the help of sample speeches, chapter review cards, numerous online tools, techniques to help you address anxiety and ethical issues, and much more, SPEAK2 gives you an exceptional foundation for creating and delivering speeches.

Speaking Across Generations: Messages That Satisfy Boomers, Xers, Millennials, Gen Z, and Beyond

Different generations communicate differently.

Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human

Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human is an unprecedented study of the ideas and methods developed by the thinker Werner Erhard. In this book, those ideas and methods are revealed by presenting in full an innovative program he developed in the 1980s called The Forum—available in this book as a transcript of an actual course led by Erhard in San Francisco in December of 1989. Since its inception, Erhard’s work has impacted the lives of millions of people throughout the world. Central to this study is a comparative analysis of Erhard’s rhetorical project, The Forum, and the philosophical project of Martin Heidegger. Through this comparative analysis, the authors demonstrate how each thinker’s work sometimes parallels and often illuminates the other. The dialogue at work in The Forum functions to generate a language which speaks being. That is, The Forum is an instance of what the authors call ontological rhetoric: a technology of communicating what cannot be said in language. Nevertheless, what does get said allows those participating in the dialogue to discover previously unseen aspects of what it currently means to be human. As a primary outcome of such discovery, access to creating a new possibility of what it is to be human is made available. The purpose of this book is to show how communication of the unspoken realm of language—speaking being—is actually accomplished in The Forum, and to demonstrate how Erhard did it in 1989. Through placing Erhard’s language use next to Heidegger’s thinking—presented in a series of “Sidebars” and “Intervals” alongside The Forum transcript—the authors have made two contributions. They have illuminated the work of two thinkers, who independently developed similar forms of ontological rhetoric while working from very different times and places. Hyde and Kopp have also for the first time made Erhard’s extraordinary form of ontological rhetoric available for a wide range of audiences, from scholars at work within a variety of academic disciplines to anyone interested in exploring the possibility of being for human beings. From the Afterword: I regard Speaking Being as an enormously important contribution to understanding Heidegger and Erhard. The latter has received far too little serious academic attention, and this book begins to make up for that lack. Moreover, the book’s analysis of Heidegger’s thought is among the best that I have ever read. I commend this book to all readers without reservation. Michael E. Zimmerman, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder

Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada (Routledge Library Editions: The English Language #21)

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

Speaking Clearly: Improving Voice and Diction (Sixth Edition)

Speaking Clearly: The Basics of Voice and Articulation (Fifth Edition)

To help you to understand how speech is produced and to guide you in the improvement of your speech production. Specifically, it provides instruction in the processes of respiration, phonation, resonation, and articulation and their coordination in pronunciation and effective vocal expression.