Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable

This analysis of speech ranges from clarifying physiological, biological and neurological bases of speech through defining the principles of electrical and comp

The selected contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as well as discussions of the applicabilit

This book provides a fascinating account of the psycholinguistic and social factors behind variation in speech timing in US English. With detailed discussions o

Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices,