situation, this book will teach you everything you need to know to plan, prepare and deliver any speech or

Contents note continued: Interpretive Theories -- Speech Community Theory -- Co-Cultural Theory

-- Basic processing of auditory information -- Music perception -- Voice perception -- Speech perception

and graphics APIs; Program in text-to-speech and speech recognition; Make the most of the new Android

. Unemployment, slow growth, threats to freedom of speech, and poor education can send the country in any

speech marks ("...") -- The hyphen (-) -- Brackets () -- The slash (/) -- Prepositions -- Improving Your

of style: how figures of speech can make your sentences sing -- Brining it all together: worked

Commercial Free Speech -- Government Censorship and the Fate of Political Speech -- Postscript -- Discussion

press freedoms in theory and reality -- Speech distinctions : dangers, fights, threats, and educational

I.Preliminaries -- 1.Discourse and discourse analysis -- 2.Speech and writing: the debate on

-- Language -- KEYS to Excellence in Designing a Speech -- Executive Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Terms

disorders, including specific language impairment, dysarthria, apraxia of speech, aphasia and stuttering