The Use of Words in Context: The Vocabulary of Collage Students

by Alan C. Nichols, Cleavonne S. Stratton, John W. Black, et al.

Book Overview

The Speech Situation is a term worn with age in the teaching of public speaking in America. That it is comprised of occasion, speaker, and topic is a gross oversimplification. It also includes challenge, anxiety, emotion, fear, responsibility, faults of memory, and instants of pride. Out of the circumstances arise an increase in heart rate, a change in blood pressure, an abnormal pattern of breathing, a noticeable build- up in perspiration, and an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306422069
• ISBN13: 9780306422065
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.7"