Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Speech & Pronunciation

Public discourse receives the concerted attention of linguists, political analysts, and others involved with language as a persuasive tool of communication. Yet sometimes overlooked is the fact that the impact of much modern political communication comes from aesthetic attributes. Effectiveness of delivery, poetry of expression, and emotional investment of the rhetorician give the audience a gauge for determining the speaker's sincerity.

"Warriors' Words" examines leadership in the present century by scrutinizing the oral and written communications of 15 remarkable individuals at...

"O woman, woman upon you I call; for upon your exertions almost entirely depends whether the rising generation shall be any thing more than we have been or not.O woman, woman your example is powerful, your influence great."Maria W. Stewart, "An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston" (1832)

Herein the only collection of speeches by nineteenth-century African-American womenis the battle of words these brave women waged to address the social ills of their century. While there have been some scattered references to the unique...

This critical analysis identifies the different rhetorical strategies and techniques that Emerson used first as a traditional New England preacher and then as he became a widely renowned public lecturer. Ten texts illustrating his different kinds of speeches on a wide array of subjects, such as prayer, manners, eloquence, the American scholar, the genuine man, and the fugitive slave law, accompany the analysis. A speech chronology and bibliography pointing to important primary and secondary materials further enrich this Great American Orators reference tool for students, scholars, and...

In this book, leading figures describe group deliberation in education and other practical enterprises of society. This volume encompasses a spectrum of angles on deliberation and views theory, research, and practice of deliberation in education and society. It displays actual cases as well as abstract concepts, and precepts along with principles. The book also illustrates a variety of methods and settings, and identifies the major topics and questions of deliberation.