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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Oratory"”.
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Shame in Athenian Oratory
… Against Timarchus (1). The usage of shame in oratory has not been extensively studied due to the potential difficulty in reconstructing how the jurors may have reacted during a court trial. However, by using a linguistic approach to the analysis of the role of shame in Athenian oratory, it …
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A rhetorical analysis of scaffold oratory
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A Lakota/Nakota/Dakota Model Of Oratory
… a traditionally Native understanding of oratory and communication, the impact of the transition to English on oratorical conventions and the culturally embedded communication practices still with us today. It delineates a model of Lakota/Nakota/Dakota oratory comprised of the traditional …
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Memory in Roman Oratory: Theory and Practice
‘Memory in Roman Oratory: Theory and Practice’ challenges and changes current perceptions of the evolution and use of mnemonic techniques in the ancient world, especially Roman oratory. The field of ‘artificial’ memory is one to which cognitive science bears real relevance: this thesis combines …
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Nulla umquam obmutescet vetustas: Hyperbaton in Cicero's oratory
… noun phrases, and its use in Cicero’s oratory. It considers the totality of all instances of this linguistic phenomenon – over 2,200 cases – in twenty-one of the orator’s speeches, and thus constitutes the first full-scale, systematic study on the topic. Through careful mapping of the …
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Orationes Regum Ac Potentia: Monarchical Oratory and Power in Shakespeare's Henriad
<p>Recent scholarly essays have marked the swing of the literary criticism pendulum from the limited scopes of formalism and New Historicism to a syncretic amalgamation aptly called “historical formalism,” in which the focus is on the formal elements of a literary work while also noting the context …
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A burkeian analysis of deliberative oratory in the Landon Lecture series 1966-70
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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A burkeian analysis of deliberative oratory in the Landon Lecture series 1966-70
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60
… printed pages were no match for charismatic oratory. Combining personal magnetism, drama and immediacy, the itinerant lecturer was the most effective medium through which to reach those with limited access to books, newspapers or national political culture. Orators crucially united their …
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The emergence of the independent prologue and chorus in Jesuit school theatre c.1550 - c.1700, derived from a comparative analysis of Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre, lay youth confraternity theatre and the oratorio vespertina of the Congregation of the Oratory
… in the services of the Congregation of the Oratory over the period c.1550-c.1660 shows a parallel progression of development; the development of the oratorio in the oratories of the Congregation is a further demonstration of Jesuit influence during this time period. The friendship of …
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A rhetorical criticism of the campaign speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson
… in world politics was due in part to his unique oratory. Dynamic in style and content, his speeches commanded the rapt attention of the American people for three intense months during which he delivered over two hundred and fifty. Of interest and importance is the new insight into national …
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Studies in the Linguistic Variation of Classical Attic and the Attic Orators
… and to explore the nature of this variation in oratory. It first analyses the distribution of these features in comedy to determine what the likely causes of variation were in the spoken language. These are then analysed in oratory (and, where possible, other texts) to determine how this genre …
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The Development and function of hana keaka (Hawaiian-medium theatre): A tool for the empowering Kanaka Maoli consciousness
… is intrinsic to Kanaka Maoli existence, as oratory was the means in which our stories were recorded and shared, prior to the introduction of a writing system. Performance was embedded within the traditional practices of Kānaka Maoli, both religious and secular, through ritual incantations, …
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Woodrow Wilson's principled preaching on United States foreign policy, 1913--1917
… policy. Wilson believed that good leaders used oratory to inform the people of important issues and guide them to support the best policies. His speeches reflect what he thought the public needed to know to approve his plans and undertakings and the concepts he used to gain that approval. Thus, …
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Reading disability in the law and in Presidential rhetoric : the cases of Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush.
… from the polity, as evinced in presidential oratory. Specifically, this project focuses on the rhetorical construction of disability in three historical moments: the Gilded Age, leading to the Progressive Era; the Reform Era of the 1950s through the 1970s; and the Bush Era of the late 1980s …
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Good Sentences And Well Pronounc'd: Female Rhetoric In The Merchant Of Venice And The Proclamation Of 1579.
… its classical forms. On the surface, rhetoric, oratory, and all forms of public discourse seem to the be the sole province of educated gentlemen. And yet, Shakespeare frequently displays his female characters' sharp rhetorical skills. In addition, Queen Elizabeth's contemporary public writings …
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Richard Pace on pedagogy, counsel and satire.
… of, and reactions to, Italian and English sacred oratory, and includes a study of his own oration delivered on the occasion of the signing of the Universal Peace Treaty in October 1518. Chapter 5 examines the Julius exclusus (c.1513), a key text for both continental reformers and propagandists for …
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Living With Hierarchies: Religion, Language, and Personhood Among Wa Buddhists in Postsocialist China
… history of religious conversion, ritual chants, oratory, and individual narratives about interethnic boundaries, hierarchy, and aspiration) constitute a meaningful and agentive resource for recalling social inequality, momentarily highlighting social difference, and construing identity. …
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Archiving the sacred: Austin Phelps and the adaptation of nineteenth-century rhetorical education at Andover Theological Seminary
… rhetorical theory, writing pedagogy, and pulpit oratory of Austin Phelps, an accomplished nineteenth-century preacher and professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary. In drawing from the archival materials at the first graduate seminary in the United States and Phelps's published …
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Hobo orator union: the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916.
… explores how the performance of soapbox oratory composed waged and unwaged workers as a class. The study is organized chronologically by date according to the major free speech fights in Spokane, Fresno, San Diego, and Everett. I argue that the hobo orators of the free speech fights …
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