The gift of the gab : how eloquence works /: how eloquence works. ([2016])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The gift of the gab : how eloquence works /: how eloquence works. ([2016])
- Main Title:
- The gift of the gab : how eloquence works
- Further Information:
- Note: David Crystal.
- Authors:
- Crystal, David, 1941-
- Contents:
- Epigraph -- Prologue -- Value-added speech -- Eloquence everywhere -- Knowing how -- How long have I got? -- Where will I be? -- Who am I talking to? (To whom am I talking?) -- Who am I talking to -- abroad? -- What to say? -- When do you say it? -- How do they do it? The memory game -- How do they do it? The rule of three -- How do they do it? Weight control -- How do they do it? Order, order -- How do they do it? Variation -- How do they do it? Being natural -- Sounding -- natural -- Rates of exchange -- The melody lingers on -- Build-ups, beats, and breaks -- Paralanguage -- Mind your technology -- Talking about content ... -- Reading it -- Nerve ending -- Homo eloquens -- Appendix 1 Obama's victory speech delivered at Grant Park, Chicago, 4 November 2008 -- Appendix 2 Martin Luther King's speech delivered at the March on Washington, 28 August 1963 -- Endnotes -- Further reading -- Index of personalities -- Index of subjects -- Illustration credits
- Publisher Details:
- Oxford, U.K : Yale University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 808.5
Elocutionists
Eloquence in literature
Oral communication
Voice culture
Storytelling
Voice Training
Professeurs de diction
Éloquence dans la littérature
Communication orale
Voix -- Culture
Art de conter
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Public Speaking
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills
Elocutionists
Eloquence in literature
Oral communication
Storytelling
Voice culture - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780300219418
0300219415 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780300214260
030021426X - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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