Understanding Public Speaking: A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

Public 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.
• F...