Public Speaking and the New Oratory: A Guide for Non-native Speakers

By Fiona Rossette-Crake

Book Overview

Part 1: Speaking in English: Getting Started.Chapter 1: Fostering an Anglo-Saxon Ethos.Chapter 2: Genre and generic competence.Chapter 3: A discourse-analysis approach to public speaking genres.Chapter 4: Public speaking versus conversation.Chapter 5: Elaborate orality: speaking from a script.
Part 2: Staging an interaction with your audience.Chapter 6: Comparisons between the language of conversation, writing and public speaking.Chapter 7: Talking to your audience.Chapter 8: Anchoring your speech in the context of delivery.Chapter 9: Rhetorical Staging.Chapter 10: Delivery, or action.Chapter 11: Slideshows that reinforce the interaction.
Part 3: Structuring your speech for listenability.Chapter 12: The syntax of the sentence.Chapter 13: Managing information.Chapter 14: Strategies for concision.Chapter 15: Figures of repetition: functions.Chapter 16: Repetition of words and accumulation: a typology.Chapter 17: Macro-organisation.Chapter 18: Connectives.Chapter 19: Introductions, transitions and signing off.
Part 4: The New Oratory.Chapter 20: Three-Minute-Thesis Presentations (3MT).Chapter 21: Investor pitches.Chapter 22: TED talks.Chapter 23: Some characteristics of the New Oratory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030220885
• ISBN13: 9783030220884
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"