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Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States The Limits of Toleration

Unsettled Voices Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

Unsettled Voices Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia from settler colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and migration debates ‘free speech’ has been weaponised to target racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule. Unsettled Voices identifies the severe limitations and the violent consequences of ‘free speech debates’ typical of contemporary cultural politics and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values underpin emboldened white supremacy. What kind of everyday racially motivated speech is protected by such an interpretation of liberal ideology? How do everyday forms of social expression that vilify and intimidate find shelter through an inflation of the notion of freedom of speech? Furthermore how do such forms refuse the idea that language can be a performative act from which harm can be derived? Racialized speech has conjured and shaped the subjectivities of multiple intersecting participants reproducing new and problematic forms of precarity. These vulnerabilities have been experienced from the sound of rubber bullets in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to UK hate speech legislation to the spontaneous performace of a First Nations war dance on the Australian Rules football pitch. This book identifies the deep limitations and the violent consequences of the longstanding and constantly developing ‘free speech debates’ typical of so many contexts in the West and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values are ‘weaponized’ to target racialized communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. | Unsettled Voices Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

GBP 38.99
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Total Speech: Blending Techniques in Speech and Language Therapy

Feminine Law Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire

Freedom of Speech

Speech Bubbles 1 User Guide Supporting Speech Sound Development in Children

The Speech and Language Activity Resource Book Themed Therapy Sessions for Adults

The Speech and Language Activity Resource Book Themed Therapy Sessions for Adults

The Speech and Language Activity Resource Book offers a flexible and readily available set of activities and worksheets designed to support speech and language therapists as they deliver personalised and engaging therapy sessions. With topics based on seasons hobbies sports and celebrations etc the worksheets can be selected to suit a client’s interests as well as targeting specific skills and needs. The engaging activities encourage conversation and participation promoting skill development in a way that is easily translated into everyday communication. Key features of this book include: A range of activities arranged by level of difficulty that can be selected based on the client’s individual need A person-centred approach to therapy enabling the time-poor practitioner the opportunity to personalise their care with ease Photocopiable and downloadable sheets that can be completed during therapy sessions or sent out to the client for home practice as well as blank worksheets that can be used to create new appropriate activities Easily adaptable for group sessions one-on-one therapy sessions and home activities this is an essential tool for speech and language therapists and occupational therapists as well as families and other practitioners supporting adults with a range of acquired communication difficulties. | The Speech and Language Activity Resource Book Themed Therapy Sessions for Adults

GBP 44.99
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Speech Enhancement Theory and Practice Second Edition

Speech Enhancement Theory and Practice Second Edition

With the proliferation of mobile devices and hearing devices including hearing aids and cochlear implants there is a growing and pressing need to design algorithms that can improve speech intelligibility without sacrificing quality. Responding to this need Speech Enhancement: Theory and Practice Second Edition introduces readers to the basic problems of speech enhancement and the various algorithms proposed to solve these problems. Updated and expanded this second edition of the bestselling textbook broadens its scope to include evaluation measures and enhancement algorithms aimed at improving speech intelligibility. Fundamentals Algorithms Evaluation and Future StepsOrganized into four parts the book begins with a review of the fundamentals needed to understand and design better speech enhancement algorithms. The second part describes all the major enhancement algorithms and because these require an estimate of the noise spectrum also covers noise estimation algorithms. The third part of the book looks at the measures used to assess the performance in terms of speech quality and intelligibility of speech enhancement methods. It also evaluates and compares several of the algorithms. The fourth part presents binary mask algorithms for improving speech intelligibility under ideal conditions. In addition it suggests steps that can be taken to realize the full potential of these algorithms under realistic conditions. What’s New in This EditionUpdates in every chapterA new chapter on objective speech intelligibility measuresA new chapter on algorithms for improving speech intelligibilityReal-world noise recordings (on downloadable resources)MATLAB® code for the implementation of intelligibility measures (on downloadable resources)MATLAB and C/C++ code for the implementation of algorithms to improve speech intelligibility (on downloadable resources)Valuable Insights from a Pioneer in Speech EnhancementClear and concise this book explores how human listeners compensate for acoustic noise in noisy environments. Written by a pioneer in speech enhancement and noise reduction in cochlear implants it is an essential resource for anyone who wants to implement or incorporate the latest speech enhancement algorithms to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech degraded by noise. Includes downloadable resources with Code and RecordingsThe downloadable resources provide MATLAB implementations of representative speech enhancement algorithms as well as speech and noise databases for the evaluation of enhancement algorithms. | Speech Enhancement Theory and Practice Second Edition

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New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech

Gender Speech and Audience Reception in Early Modern England

Gender Speech and Audience Reception in Early Modern England

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as scenes of speech. This new approach examining speech exchanges between a speaker and audience in which both anticipate interact with and respond to each other and each other's expectations demonstrates that the prescriptive process involves a dynamic exchange in which each side plays a role in establishing and contesting the boundaries of acceptable speech for women. Drawing from a wide range of evidence including pamphlets diaries illustrations and plays the book interprets the various and at times contradictory representations and reception of women’s speech that circulated in early modern England. Speech scenes examined within include wives' speech to their husbands in private private speech between women public speech before death and the speech of witches. Looking at scenes of women’s speech from male and female authors Smith argues that these early modern texts illustrate a means through which societal regulations were negotiated and modified. This book will appeal to those with an interest in early modern drama including the playwrights Shakespeare Cary Webster Fletcher and Middleton as well as readers of non-dramatic early modern literary texts. The volume is of particular use for scholars working in the areas of early modern literature and culture women’s history gender studies and performance studies. | Gender Speech and Audience Reception in Early Modern England

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Audio and Speech Processing with MATLAB

Audio and Speech Processing with MATLAB

Speech and audio processing has undergone a revolution in preceding decades that has accelerated in the last few years generating game-changing technologies such as truly successful speech recognition systems; a goal that had remained out of reach until very recently. This book gives the reader a comprehensive overview of such contemporary speech and audio processing techniques with an emphasis on practical implementations and illustrations using MATLAB code. Core concepts are firstly covered giving an introduction to the physics of audio and vibration together with their representations using complex numbers Z transforms and frequency analysis transforms such as the FFT. Later chapters give a description of the human auditory system and the fundamentals of psychoacoustics. Insights results and analyses given in these chapters are subsequently used as the basis of understanding of the middle section of the book covering: wideband audio compression (MP3 audio etc. ) speech recognition and speech coding. The final chapter covers musical synthesis and applications describing methods such as (and giving MATLAB examples of) AM FM and ring modulation techniques. This chapter gives a final example of the use of time-frequency modification to implement a so-called phase vocoder for time stretching (in MATLAB). FeaturesA comprehensive overview of contemporary speech and audio processing techniques from perceptual and physical acoustic models to a thorough background in relevant digital signal processing techniques together with an exploration of speech and audio applications. A carefully paced progression of complexity of the described methods; building in many cases from first principles. Speech and wideband audio coding together with a description of associated standardised codecs (e. g. MP3 AAC and GSM). Speech recognition: Feature extraction (e. g. MFCC features) Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and deep learning techniques such as Long Short-Time Memory (LSTM) methods. Book and computer-based problems at the end of each chapter. Contains numerous real-world examples backed up by many MATLAB functions and code. | Audio and Speech Processing with MATLAB

GBP 51.99
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Automated Speaking Assessment Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech

Automated Speaking Assessment Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech

Automated Speaking Assessment: Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech provides a thorough overview of state-of-the-art automated speech scoring technology as it is currently used at Educational Testing Service (ETS). Its main focus is related to the automated scoring of spontaneous speech elicited by TOEFL iBT Speaking section items but other applications of speech scoring such as for more predictable spoken responses or responses provided in a dialogic setting are also discussed. The book begins with an in-depth overview of the nascent field of automated speech scoring—its history applications and challenges—followed by a discussion of psychometric considerations for automated speech scoring. The second and third parts discuss the integral main components of an automated speech scoring system as well as the different types of automatically generated measures extracted by the system features related to evaluate the speaking construct of communicative competence as measured defined by the TOEFL iBT Speaking assessment. Finally the last part of the book touches on more recent developments such as providing more detailed feedback on test takers’ spoken responses using speech features and scoring of dialogic speech. It concludes with a discussion summary and outlook on future developments in this area. Written with minimal technical details for the benefit of non-experts this book is an ideal resource for graduate students in courses on Language Testing and Assessment as well as teachers and researchers in applied linguistics. | Automated Speaking Assessment Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech

GBP 46.99
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Personality Appearance and Speech

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we are organized and how we influence each other and wield power. It is suggested that speaking is a major clue to organization and to the creation of new organizations. The task is to describe how speech-acting organizes. This book takes findings in the project’s philosophy of collective intentions – its philosophy of society – into the field of empirical study of organization and politics. The book investigates the relation between knowledge and politics between describing the world and changing it between cognitive – sensing - and volitional – wilful – processes and goes on to describe how speech-acting organizes reorganizes - and destroys organizations. It looks at persons and groups as speech-actors. It investigates how speech-acting can spur movements in organizations from routines to learning to innovations and back How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization develops a model of how speech-acting generates new organization – or social innovations. Empirical studies of some economic political and ideological organizations are mined for model development. Speech-acting occurs in the context of institutions with capital producing firms and nation states at present as the most ubiquitous. But speech-acting has an element of freedom that makes some of its results unpredictable and difficult to control. Aimed at academics researchers and students in the field of Organizational Studies How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization examines a new contribution and direction in the field.

GBP 39.99
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Excitable Speech A Politics of the Performative

Excitable Speech A Politics of the Performative

‘When we claim to have been injured by language what kind of claim do we make?’ - Judith Butler Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler’s most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate speech pornography and gayness within the US military Butler argues that words can wound and linguistic violence is its own kind of violence. Yet she also argues that speech is ‘excitable’ and fluid because its effects often are beyond the control of the speaker shaped by fantasy context and power structures. In a novel and courageous move she urges caution concerning the use of legislation to restrict and censor speech especially in cases where injurious language is taken up by aesthetic practices to diminish and oppose the injury such as in rap and popular music. Although speech can insult and demean it is also a form of recognition and may be used to talk back; injurious speech can reinforce power structures but it can also repeat power in ways that separate language from its injurious power. Skillfully showing how language’s oppositional power resides in its insubordinate and dynamic nature and its capacity to appropriate and defuse words that usually wound Butler also seeks to account for why some clearly hateful speech is taken to be iconic of free speech while other forms are more easily submitted to censorship. In light of current debates between advocates of freedom of speech and ‘no platform’ and cancel culture the message of Excitable Speech remains more relevant now than ever. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author where she considers speech and language in the context contemporary forms of political polarization. | Excitable Speech A Politics of the Performative

GBP 16.99
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The Infancy of Speech and the Speech of Infancy

Developing Children's Speech Language and Communication Through Stories and Drama

Working with Childhood Apraxia of Speech Theory and Practice for Speech and Language Therapists

Working with Childhood Apraxia of Speech Theory and Practice for Speech and Language Therapists

This resource will lead the reader through the practicalities of assessment diagnosis and therapeutic intervention for children of all ages with features of childhood apraxia of speech. It provides the theory and underlying principles upon which to work with children who have this fascinating but challenging disorder in collaboration with families and schools. Chapters are clearly laid out with hands on activities for intervention and helpful summaries. There is a focus on alternative and augmentative means of communication and multidisciplinary working as well as a wealth of case studies and teaching notes for training other professionals. Fresh ways of working are addressed such as the use of teletherapy and other techniques such as group therapy and the consultative approach are discussed. Key features include: A theoretical overview of current thinking about childhood apraxia of speech A structured assessment format with a chapter specifically focused on how to take a detailed speech sample Clear guidance on how to make a differential diagnosis How to spot early indicators of childhood apraxia of speech Advice sheets for parents and schools Downloadable record forms for case history taking and assessment. This book can be read cover to cover or dipped into for quick and easy therapy ideas and is presented in an easy-to-read format with chapters broken down into bite-sized chunks. It is an essential handbook for all speech and language therapists and students whatever their level of experience. | Working with Childhood Apraxia of Speech Theory and Practice for Speech and Language Therapists

GBP 34.99
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Speech Bubbles 2 (Picture Books and Guide) Supporting Speech Sound Development in Children

Supporting Early Speech-Language Development Strategies for Ages 0-8

Assessing and Diagnosing Speech Therapy Needs in School Pedagogical Diagnostics in Theory and Practice

Assessing and Diagnosing Speech Therapy Needs in School Pedagogical Diagnostics in Theory and Practice

Assessing and Diagnosing Speech Therapy Needs in School is a unique text that offers practical guidance in pedagogical diagnosis of speech and communication difficulties within educational settings It outlines theoretical assumptions of the diagnosis process and presents hands-on solutions for pedagogical and speech therapy. Underpinned by theoretical knowledge and written by experienced practitioners the book equips its readers with tools to understand the diagnostic process and make accurate diagnoses based on each child’s individual circumstances. It starts by clearly distinguishing between pedagogy and speech therapy and outlines issues and theoretical considerations in diagnosing these disorders. To contextualize the theorical observations it goes on to present case studies and touches upon crucial topics including readiness to start education tendency toward aggressive behavior aphasia and hearing loss. The authors also elaborate on a range of selected diagnostic tools to assess specific difficulties in speech and language therapy. Finally a list of resources including games and exercises that can target reading writing and articulation skills to help children develop are also featured in the book. Highlighting the importance of practical and theoretical knowledge for those who work with children this will be a valuable aid for teachers special educators and speech and language therapists working within school settings. The book will also be of interest to students teachers and trainee practitioners in the fields of speech therapy and special educational needs. | Assessing and Diagnosing Speech Therapy Needs in School Pedagogical Diagnostics in Theory and Practice

GBP 24.99
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Sound and Robotics Speech Non-Verbal Audio and Robotic Musicianship

COVID-19 and Speech-Language Pathology

Words That Wound Critical Race Theory Assaultive Speech And The First Amendment