The first of the four Approaches I will discuss is Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types
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Analytical Rhetoric: “’Center of Attention’: The Gender of Sports Media” In Michael A. Messner’s article of the topic of sports portraying in the comparison between the genders‚ he justifies the theme by claiming that “Sport is a man’s world.” Throughout history‚ sports in America were mostly participated and entertaining to the masculine role. As for the women‚ through the men’s eyes‚ the female role in sports are observed as pawns in the game‚ only described by Messner’s translations‚ “Women
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interest/focus Learning how to do a system restore. Attitude toward topic Interested in computer tasks. Speaker credibility Sounding confident in what you are speaking about. Occasion ? Speaker ________________________________ Topic ________________________________ What devices will you use in the introduction to gain audience attention? Vocal What steps will you take to relate the topic to this audience? Make the speech seem interesting to any age group. What is the main idea you
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point in time. This focus requires a lot of mental effort or concentration and this is what cognitive psychologist term attention. Attention refers to the concentration and focusing of mental effort (Best‚ 1995). Focus is selective‚ divisible and shiftable. Focus is selective when we pay attention to some things and not others. It is shifable when we are able to move our attention from one thing to another and focus is divisible when we can attend to two or more activities
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Attention all teens! After a long long long time of waiting on hand and knee of the evil adultarchy‚ we the teens and the Council of Teenage Freedom have decided to revolt! just Sure‚ we are just a bunch of teens funded by the first national bank of dad‚ we have no say in politics until we are 18‚ The truths that we hold self-evident is; the right to have a myspace page. The right to be able to play video games whenever we want. In addition‚ to have the right to have a cell phone at any age.
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more often than they normally have been. ll. Introduction: Attention Getter - (question/test) How many of you can perfectly write the whole alphabet with your weak hand? Topic – Using your weak hand more often can create more balance in your life as well as preventing long term problems. Ethos & Audience Adaptation – I’m qualified to persuade my audience about my topic because I took great pride to find accurate information‚ and simply because I practice
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Attention Grabber: I’m a generally happy person. It really takes a lot to make me mad. That doesn’t mean‚ though‚ that things don’t bug me. Lots of things bug me. It bugs me when I am carded to buy an R rated movie. It bugs me when people are late to appointments they have with me. It bugs me when the officials continually call unfair fouls on one particular team in order to determine the outcome of the game!…but that’s another speech. These are all things that I can anticipate‚ though.
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leadership roles are consistent with Kroger’s strategy of encouraging leadership and innovation. That will give incentive for the board of directors to take leadership roles and lead the company to innovation. Safeway: Safeway was more concerned about growth in the latter half of the 20th century. They grew
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twelve years old. I had never heard of ’social action‚’ nor seen anyone engaged in it‚ but I barely took a breath before saying that I would like to see the executive director‚" Height related in her 2003 memoir. Though her arguments could not bring about a change in policy in 1920s Pittsburgh‚ Height later dedicated much of her professionl energy to bringing profound change to the YWCA. In need of money to attend college‚ Height entered an oratorical contest sponsored by the IBPO Elks. Her speech
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In psychology‚ there are two types of attention: selective attention and divided attention. Divided attention is the state of paying attention to more than one stimulus or to a stimulus rather than focusing on one certain action or thing. Where selective attention on the other hand can be described as a type of attention which involves focusing on a specific part of a scene while ignoring other aspects. We can multitask or scan as long as anything we are doing is not too complicated or requires
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