The art of public speaking is not a gift from heaven, but rather an accomplishment achieved through practice and hard work. You too can achieve this level of competence, if not mastery, by adopting the ideas and suggestions offered in Speaking with Style. This is a complete and comprehensive guide on the art of public speaking, which offers detailed and practical advice on mastering the skill to help readers becoming an effective, confident, and powerful speaker. Comprising 65 chapters divided into six sections, the book covers all important aspects of speech making ranging from preparation, presentation, rhetorical devices, self-analysis, to dealing with regulators and law courts. Each chapter is self-contained and complete in itself covering a technique that, once mastered, will enhance your power as a speaker. The author distills his extensive experience of forty years as a public speaker to present valuable insights and tips on becoming an accomplished speaker and empathetic communicator. His recommendations are easy, realistic, and are often accompanied by a checklist of instructions and examples from famous speakers down the ages. Since he is a chartered accountant, the students of accountancy and accountants in the profession and industry will find this book more interesting and relevant to them. Besides, it will be of immense value to the students and professionals in various other fields. TARGET AUDIENCE This is a must-read book for speakers, educators, trainers, entrepreneurs, executives, leaders and all those who aspire to improve their public speaking skills.

Speaking in Styles aims to help Web designers learn the "language" that will be used to take their vision from the static comp to the live Internet. Many designers think that CSS is code, and that it's too hard to learn. Jason takes an approach to CSS that breaks it down around common design tasks and helps the reader learn that they already think in styles--they just need to learn to speak the language. Jason helps Web designers find their voice, walks them through the grammar of CSS, shows them how to write their design specs in CSS, and how to prepare it for screen, printer or handheld devices. Along the way designers will learn to optimize their code, make it accessible, optimize for search engines, mix it up with Flash, and more.

In acquiring communicative competence, children must learn to speak not only grammatically but also appropriately. Although rules for appropriate language use may vary from culture to culture, they are usually sensitive across languages to many of the same factors, including the context and the topic of the discourse, and the sex, age, familiarity and relative status of the speaker and the listener. There is available detailed evidence of the ways in which adults consistently modify their speech to foreigners, of phonological, syntactic, and lexical markings of language in professional settings, and of differences in men’s and women’s speech that are tied to their roles in society. This book examines young children’s knowledge of the sociolinguistic rules that govern appropriate language use, exploring (i) the repertoire of registers (ie speech varieties) that young children possess; (ii) the linguistic devices that they use to mark distinct registers; (iii) the way their skill in using these registers develops.

This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!, and Talking from 9 to 5, among others. Carefully examining the discourse of six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner conversation, Tannen analyzes the features that make up the speakers' conversational styles, and in particular how aspects of what she calls a 'high-involvement style' have a positive effect when used with others who share the style, but a negative effect with those whose styles differ. This revised edition includes a new preface and an afterword in which Tannen discusses the book's place in the evolution of her work. Conversational Style is written in an accessible and non-technical style that should appeal to scholars and students of discourse analysis (in fields like linguistics, anthropology, communication, sociology, and psychology) as well as general readers fascinated by Tannen's popular work. This book is an ideal text for use in introductory classes in linguistics and discourse analysis.

As a main type of freedom of speech, motivational speaking gives much to humanity, yet we ought not consume motivational speaking uncritically. Thus this work reflects upon the nature of motivational speaking so we may keep what rocks and leave behind what sucks. Hopefully, we shall achieve the best possible life in the process. 28 pages; 25 poems.

Motivational speaking has inspired humanity to achieve its greatest accomplishments. Yet motivational speaking does promote some false and even dangerous ideas. Thus this book aims to kick down the false and dangerous ideas, so only the virtuous, empowering, and wise ideas of motivational speaking reign. 26 pages; 25 poems