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Understanding Public Speaking: A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367086053)
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xPublic speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art. This book illustrates the use of various linguistic devices and persuasive strategies with examples from the speeches of powerful orators in history. It systematically draws on the various approaches to public speaking and persuasive discourse to present new insights and techniques.
The volume:
- Critically examines strategies of persuasive oratory.
- Draws on extensive investigation of a corpus of famous public speeches in history.
- Focuses on the needs of those who want to brush up their public speaking skills.
The volume will be a key reference for aspiring civil servants, lawyers, business and corporate professionals, and politicians. It will be of great interest to scholars of linguistics, and political and business communication.
Author: Braj Mohan
ISBN-10: 0367086050
ISBN-13: 9780367086053
Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2019
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d
By Braj Mohan
xBraj Mohan is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics and Contemporary English at the English and Foreign Languages University, Lucknow Campus. He has a PhD in Linguistics and specializes in Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics. He has published numerous articles in the area of persuasive oratory and political rhetoric.
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