My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "", ""' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942. The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energized and inspired by his speeches, which were almost universally ad…
"The first systematic, archive based examination of Churchill's World War II rhetoric as a whole, The Roar of the Lion considers his oratory not merely as a series of 'great speeches', but as calculated political interventions which had diplomatic repercussions far beyond the ef…
Boîte à outils sur la prise de parole, comprenant les fondamentaux, des exercices pratiques, des interviews de professionnels pour lesquels la parole joue un rôle important dans leur métier, et des mises en situation concrètes.
An illustrated edition of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech.
This is not a book on rhetoric in any narrow sense, but rather concerns its general ambiance and also some of its quite specific manifestations. The thirteen chapters that comprise the book move chronologically from the Renaissance up to the present time. Chapter 2 shows the con…
"Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offer…