The gift of the gab : how eloquence works /: how eloquence works. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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