The eastern public speaking conference

THE LEGISLATIVE STRUGGLE. By Bertram M. Gross. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1953; pp. xviii+472. $6.50.

MASON'S MANUAL OF LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE. By Paul Mason. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1953; pp. 640. $6.50.

I AM HAPPY TO PRESENT. By Guy R. Lyle and Kevin Guinagh. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1953; pp. 265. $3.00.

THE MIRACLE OF LANGUAGE. By Charlton Laird. New York: The World Publishing Co., 1953; pp. xii+308. $4.00.

PHONETICS IN ANCIENT INDIA. By W. S. Allen. London Oriental Series, Volume 1. London: Oxford University Press, 1953; pp. x+96. $3.00.

SUPERVISING PEOPLE. By George D. Halsey. (Revised edition). New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1953; pp. 238. $3.00.

COMMUNICATION IN MANAGEMENT. By Charles E. Redfield. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953; pp. xvi+290. $3.75.

ADULT EDUCATION, THE COMMUNITY APPROACH. By Paul H. Sheats, Clarence D. Jayne, and Ralph B. Spence. New York: Dryden Press; pp. xiii+530. $5.75.

THE ART OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING. By C. B. Eavey. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, pp. 298. $3.75.

HOW TO BECOME A BETTER READER. By Paul Witty. Chicago: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1953; pp. viii+304. $5.00.

READING ALOUD. By Wayland Maxfield Parrish. (Third Edition). New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1953; pp. iv+572. $4.25.

TIME FOR TRUE TALES AND ALMOST TRUE. By May Hill Arbuthnot. New York: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1953; pp. 396. $3.50.

THE COLLECTED PLAYS OF W. B. YEATS. By W. B. Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953; pp. 446. $5.00.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953; pp. 344. $5.00.

TILBURY TOWN: SELECTED POEMS OF EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON. By Lawrence Thompson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953; pp. xvi+144. $3.50.

THESE THAT I HAVE LOVED. AN ANTHOLOGY OF LIVING POETRY AND PROSE. By Mildred Welker Hufstater. New York: Pageant Press, 1953; pp. xiv+112. $3.00.

LITERARY MASTERPIECES OF THE WESTERN WORLD. Edited by Francis H. Horn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1953: pp. xix+255. $3.50.     

Eastern public speaking conference

Sound, A Textbook. By Arthur Tabor Jones. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1937; pp. xi + 450. $3.75.

How to Win Friends and Influence People. By Dale Carnegie. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936; pp. vii + 341. $2.00.

Actor in the Making. By William H. Bridge. Boston: Expression Company, 1936; pp. 115.

Public Discussion and Debate. (Revised Edition.) By A. Craig Baird. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1937; pp. iv + 400. $2.00.

Seeing and Hearing America. By Vida Ravenscroft Sutton. Boston: Expression Company, 1936; pp. 111. $1.75.

How to Improve Your Voice; Modern Theory and Practice for Singers and Speakers. By Gregory Krasnoff. New York: The Dial Press, 1936; pp. vii‐x + 181. $2.25.

Dos and Don'ts of Radio Writing. By Ralph Rogers. Boston: Associated Radio Writers, Inc., 1937; pp. 104. $1.00.

How to Speak in Public: a Natural Method. By Frank Home Kirkpatrick. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1937; pp. v‐xxiii + 199. $1.75.

Tournament Plays. Thirteen hitherto unpublished one‐act plays. New York: Samuel French, 1937; pp. 232. $1.50.

A History of Modern Colloquial English, 3rd ed. By Henry Cecil Wyld. New York: E. P. Dutton &; Co., 1937; pp. xviii + 433. $3.00.

20,000 Words Often Mispronounced. By W. H. P. Phyfe. New edition compiled by Fred A. Sweet and Maud D. Williams. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937; pp. xvii + 791. $2.00.

You Don't Say! By Alfred H. Holt. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1937; pp. xvii + 165. $1.50.

The Call of the Dead (Totenmal). By Albert Talhoff. Boston: Expression Company, n.d.; pp. 25.

Simplified Lip Reading. New York: Supplementary School for Lip Reading and Speech Correction, 1937; pp. 80. $1.50.

Practical Methods in Choral Speaking. By Marguerite E. DeWitt and Others. Boston: Expression Company, 1936; pp. 253.

European and Asiatic Plays. Edited by Joseph Richard Taylor. Boston: Expression Co., 1936; pp. 730 + x.

Pitch and Intensity Characteristics of Stage Speech. By Milton Cowan. Iowa City: Supplement to Archives of Speech, 1936; pp. 92.

An American Phonetic Reader. By Sarah T. Barrows and Alta B. Hall. Boston: Expression Co., 1936; pp. xvi + 58. $1.25.

An English Pronouncing Dictionary, 4th ed. By Daniel Jones. New York: E. P. Dutton &; Co., 1937; pp. xxviii + 495. $2.00.

Animal Marionettes, Handbook X. By Paul McPharlin. Birmingham, Michigan: Puppetry Imprints, 1937; pp. 31. $1.50.

Puppetry, 1936. Edited by Paul McPharlin, Birmingham, Michigan: Puppetry Imprints, 1936; pp. 158. $2.50.

Speech Composition. By William Norwood Brigance. New York: F. S. Crofts and Co., 1937; pp. 385. $2.25.

Day by Day with American Playwrights. Compiled and edited with an introduction by Irene Childrey Hoch. Visalia, California: Published by the author, 1936; pp. 84. $1.00.

Catholic Evidence Training Outlines. (Third Edition, revised and enlarged.) Compiled by Maisie Ward and F. J. Sheed. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1935; pp. 330. $1.50.

Reading for Skill. By Angela M. Broening, Frederick H. Law, Mary S. Wilkinson, and Caroline L. Ziegler. New York: Noble and Noble, 1936; pp. xiii + 399. $1.30.

A Guide to Pronunciation. By Paul W. Carhart. Entirely rewritten by John S. Kenyon. Springfield: The G. &; C. Merriam Co., 1934.

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, fifth edition. Springfield: The G. &; C. Merriam Co., 1936; pp. xxvi + 1274.

Poetry Arranged for the Speaking Choir. By Marion Parsons Robinson and Rozetta Lura Thurston. Boston: Expression Co., 1936; pp. 405. $2.50.

Psychometric Methods. By J. P. Guilford. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1936; pp. xvi + 566. $4.50.

One Hundred New Declamations. Compiled and edited by Lestee C. Boone. New York: Noble and Noble, Inc., 1936; pp. xxxiii + 434. $2.50.

Film and Theatre. By Allandyce Nicoll. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1936; pp. ix + 255. $2.50.

Principles of Shakespearean Production. By G. Wilson Knight. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936; pp. 246. $3.50.

Modern Rules of Parliamentary Procedure. By Robert D. Leigh. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1937; pp. 106. $1.00.

Scenery Then and Now. By Donald Oenslager, New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1936; pp. 265. $5.00.

Stage Management for the Amateur Theatre. By William Perdue Halstead. New York: F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1937; pp. xviii + 265. $2.50.

Let's Give A Play. By Gertrude Smith Buckland. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1937; pp. 197. $1.50.

Adult Education. By Lyman Bryson. New York: The American Book Co., 1936; pp. 208.     

Public speaking and public opinion

SPEECH CRITICISM. The Development of Standards for Rhetorical Appraisal. By Lester Thonssen and A. Craig Baird. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1948; pp. xvi+542. $5.00.

ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM: THE RENASCENCE. By J. W. H. Atkins. London: Methuen and Company, 1947; pp. xi+371. 16s.

THE AMERICAN COLLEGE DICTIONARY. Edited by Clarence L. Barnhart. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948; pp. lx+1432. $6.00.

PUBLIC OPINION AND PROPAGANDA. By Leonard W. Doob. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1948; pp. vii+600. $5.00. Text edition, $3.75.

TONE LANGUAGES: A Technique for Determining the Number and Type of Pitch Contrasts in a Language, with studies in Tonemic Substitution and Fusion. By Kenneth L. Pike. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1948; pp. xii+187. Paper, $2.25. Cloth, $3.00.

TREASURY OF RELIGIOUS PLAYS. Edited by Thelma Sharman Brown. New York: Association Press, 1947; pp. 345. $3.00.

ENCORES ON MAIN STREET. By Talbot Pearson. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology Press, 1948; pp. 175, $3.00.

EFFECTIVE TALKING IN CONFERENCE. By John Mantle Clapp. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1948; pp. v+140. $2.50.

THOUGHT PICTURES IN READING AND WRITING. By Roland Barker. New York: Published for Metropolitan School Study Council by Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1948; pp. ix+ 114. $2.00.

THE LANGUAGE AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN. By A. F. Watts. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1947; pp. v+354. $3.25.

PAPERS GIVEN AT A CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COURSES IN COMMUNICATION. Edited by Clyde W. Dow. East Lansing: Michigan State College, 1947; pp. 79. $2.00.

SING WELL, SPEAK WELL. By J. Albert Fracht and Emmett Robinson. Brooklyn: Remsen Press, 1948; pp. vii+178. $3.75.

THE PATTERN OF SPOKEN ENGLISH. By Barbara Storey. The Speech Fellowship Booklet No. 1. Oxford: University Press, 1948; pp. 28. $.50.

TWENTIETH CENTURY SPEECH AND VOICE CORRECTION. Edited by Emil Froeschels. New York: Philosophical Library, 1948; pp. 321. $6.00.

PRONUNCIATION EXERCISES IN ENGLISH FOR THE FOREIGN‐BORN. By M. Elizabeth Clarey and Robert J. Dixson. New York: Regents Publishing Company, 1947; pp. 119. $1.25.

SPEECH CORRECTION IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By Mabel F. Gifford. Bulletin of the California State Department of Education. Vol. 17, No. 1. Sacramento: California State Department of Education, 1948; pp. vi+33.

THE VIRGINIA PLAN FOR AUDIO‐VISUAL EDUCATION. Prepared by James W. Brown. Chicago: The Center for the Study of Audio‐Visual Instructional Materials, Department of Education, University of Chicago, 1947; pp. vi+31.

LOOK, LISTEN, AND LEARN. A Manual on the Use of Audio‐Visual Materials in Informal Education. By L. Harry Strauss and J. R. Kidd. New York: Association Press, 1948; pp. x+234. $3.50.

AUDIO‐VISUAL AIDS IN THE ARMED SERVICES. By John R. Miles and Charles R. Spain for the Commission on Implications of Armed Services Educational Programs. Washington, D. C.: American Council on Education, 1947; pp. xi+96. $1.25.

AUDIO‐VISUAL AIDS TO INSTRUCTION. By William Exton, Jr., Captain, USNR, Inactive. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1947; pp. xiii+344. $4.00.

RADIO'S BEST PLAYS. Edited by Joseph Liss. New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1947; pp. xiv+383. $3.00.

THEATRE GUILD ON THE AIR. Edited by H. William Fitelson. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1947; pp. xiii+430. $4.00.

FM FOR EDUCATION. By Franklin Dunham, assisted by Ronald R. Lowdermilk and Gertrude G. Broderick. (Revised). Washington, D. C.: Federal Security Agency. U. S. Office o£ Education. Misc. No. 7, 1948; pp. vi+30. $.20.     

Majors and credits in public speaking

If politics is an art, then matters of style must be crucial to its practice. This essay considers how political actions are shaped by rhetorical practices that depend upon aesthetic perceptions. Modern assumptions of artistic autonomy are replaced by the classical concept of decorum, which offers a model for understanding how political life is styled for rhetorical effect. The role of decorousness in contemporary politics is illustrated by the extreme case of the courtly style, which constitutes power through propriety, is centered on the king's body, displaces speech with gesture, and ends in political paralysis.     

Social standards in public speaking instruction

EARTHTALK: COMMUNICATION EMPOWERMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION. Edited by Star A. Muir and Thomas L. Veenendall. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996; pp. xviii + 233. $59.00.

ECOSPEAK: RHETORIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN AMERICA. By M. Jimmie Kffling‐sworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992; pp. xii + 312. $34.95.

GREEN CULTURE: RHETORICAL ANALYSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE. Edited by Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996; pp. xii + 303. $45.00; paper $21.95.

IN THE NATURE OF THINGS: LANGUAGE, POLITICS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. Edited by Jane Bennett and William Chaloupka. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993; pp. xvi + 275. $47.95; paper $18.95.

PLANNING AS PERSUASIVE STORYTELLING: THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF CHICAGO'S ELECTRIC FUTURE. By James A. Throgmorton. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996; pp. xxiii + 313. $61.00; paper $19.95.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION: THOREAU, NATURE WRITING, AND THE FORMATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE. By Lawrence Buell. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995; pp. xii + 586. $36.50; paper $ 16.95.     

Standardization of grades in public speaking

Communicators achieve increased rule consensus as they use talk to overcome problems. Two kinds of talk seem especially useful to increasing consensus: remedial talk, which uses rules to correct past problems; and legislative talk, which uses rules to propose guides for future conduct.     

A psychological pattern of anxiety in public speaking

In previous research, a physiological pattern of speech anxiety has been established for the periods before, during, and after delivering a public speech. However, no corresponding psychological pattern has been reported. Although strong correlations between psychological and physiological measures have not been found, it seemed reasonable to expect public speakers to exhibit a psychological pattern of speech anxiety similar to the physiological pattern. The results of this study support that hypothesis. The observed pattern is a monotonic function decreasing from the beginning of the speech through the post speech period.