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Speaker Blog

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THE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

It is time to give some serious attention to the rhetorical analysis and
criticism of the public discourse of business leaders, in particular, contemporary
corporate officers. When Herbert Wichelns defined rhetorical
criticism as a thing separate from literary criticism in …

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Working On Your Shyness

I often question whether I really need to be a public speaker. As a paralegal, am I really required to speak in public? Do I really want to speak in public? If you were to ask me those questions 15 …

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Cicero (106—43 BCE)

Marcus Tullius Cicero was born on January 3, 106 BC and was murdered on December 7, 43 BC. His life coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, and he was an important actor in many of the …

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The Classical Argument

Since rhetors began teaching Greek farmers strategies for appealing their cases to Greek courts in the fifth century B.C., the classical argument has stood as a model for writers who believe their case can be argued logically and plausibly to …

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LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION

We have seen that linguists like to think of linguistic items as having fixed and stable properties, among other things inert, literal meanings. This way of looking at linguistic phenomena as objects is coupled with a very popular model of …

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SPEECH AND WRITING

Spoken language and speech communication

In a normal speech communication situation, a speaker tries to exert an influence on a listener (or a group of listeners) by making him (or them) perceive, understand, feel or do something particular. The speaker …

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