Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture

by Amanda Nell Edgar

Book Overview

Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Critical/Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association

Recent pieces by NPR, the BBC, and Forbes have called attention to the power of voice--positing that "your voice is the secret to getting hired" and that "voice can accelerate or hold back a career." While it has become clearer that such things as pitch and intonation can be tied to assumptions about one's gender, race/ethnicity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814214061
• ISBN13: 9780814214060
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"