Book Description
This text teaches public speaking skills in the context of cultural influences and resources. It addresses the ways in which culture and society shape the perception of appropriate public speaking as well as how public speaking affects the values, attitudes, and beliefs of people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds.
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About the author
Clella Jaffe is Associate Professor and Director of Forensics at George Fox University. Clella taught at Oregon State University and St. John's University (New York) before coming to George Fox University in 1995. She teaches introduction to communication, mass communication and popular culture, nonverbal communication, gender communication across cultures, argumentation and debate, and oral interpretation of literature. PUBLIC SPEAKING: CONCEPTS AND SKILLS FOR A DIVERSE SOCIETY, Third Edition (Wadsworth), was first in the field to emphasize diversity. Her doctoral work examined intercultural communication among Russian Old Believers, Jehovah's Witness, and Latino students. Research on the medieval mother, Dhuoda, appears in IN THEIR OWN VOICES: THE RHETORICAL ACTIVITIES OF HISTORICAL WOMEN (Molly Wertheimer, ed., Southern Illinois University Press). Research on wives of Promise Keepers appeared in STANDING ON THE PROMISES (Dane Classen, ed., Pilgrim Press). She is currently working on an oral interpretation text and on a book about ethics in nonverbal communication.
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