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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Common Speech"”.
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‘“Tantalizing Vagueness”: Intimacy and Distance in Edward Thomas’s Poetry’ with a practice-by-research poetry collection, ‘The Things I Could Not Say’.
… and our need for escape. Chapter 4 considers how common speech can quickly create intimacy with the reader. However, unconvincing speech can draw too much attention to poems as constructs. Thomas’s common speech is more intricate and subtle than it may initially seem. At times, Thomas’s syntax …
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Folding City Flats
… communicative mediums on everyday language and common speech. These poems also attempt to construct a sense of self, often times in the form of fracture and fragmentation, which can both complicate and frustrate the notion of a singular objective self that pre-exists language and the function of …
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Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative
… earlier twentieth century poets often shunned common speech, poets today seek instead to appropriate, adapt, and reorganize a wide variety of contemporary discourses. Narrative also reemerges both in hybridized writing fusing prose and verse and in sequences of digressions and anecdotes. Poetic …
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Social signaling in decision making
… interactions. The paralinguistic elements of speech, which are described in common speech as "tone of voice", are one channel of the nonverbal communication. They, together with conversational dynamics, are a very powerful measurement for interactions, without looking at the content of the …
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Using movement homework activities to enhance the phonological skills of children whose primary communication difficulty is a phonological disorder.
Students who have been classified with a Speech-Language Impairment (SI) are eligible to receive special education services within the U.S. school system. The classification of children with SI is generally categorized into two groups: Those with language impairments (receptive and expressive) or …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… like William Levitt modernized the historical common houses, hermetically sealing their porous construction, all while using the ranch-style roots of the dwelling to galvanize a myth of an indigenous American culture. At a moment of intense occupational bureaucracy, political uncertainty and …
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Environmental Values Reconsidered: Articulating Conservation and Other More-than-human Relations
… a point already made (in the context of common speech) by American Pragmatist John Dewey nearly one hundred years ago (Dewey 1939). Recent studies in environmental and conservation values could benefit substantially from a deeper engagement with decades of philosophical work that …