Summary
Vesna Ždrnja: The Culture of Speech
Handbook
The book is intended for everyone who uses their speaking skills to make a living and make the world better. The interdisciplinary field defined by the term speech culture is equally interesting to those who educate future teachers of (native) languages, then future and current journalists and actors, but also to all those who in any way use verbal expression in their professions - politicians, managers, PR experts...
The author's intention is to create in this manual a "reminder for those who deal with speech as part of their profession, with a recommendation to look for a way to improve their skill they train and improve through practical work". In addition to speaking, in this manual the author also provides data for the analysis of a written artistic text and its preparation for speech, along with introductory notes for interpreting the text.
How to analyze a text and prepare it for spoken interpretation?
Why is reviving a text a special artistic act that transforms written language into the drama of spoken language?
How to develop the art of speaking as a practical skill in yourself and others?
What does someone who thinks that speaking culture write for us can't this skill be learned from books?
Because of the good intention, because of the interdisciplinary approach that she chose, the good organizational scheme of the manual and, finally, because of the love for what speech gives us, I highly recommend this book.
Prof. Dr. Svenka Savić
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