Understanding Public Speaking

Name: Understanding Public Speaking
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367086053
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A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

By Braj Mohan

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Understanding Public Speaking by Braj Mohan explores the art of public speaking through detailed analysis of linguistic devices and persuasive strategies used by renowned orators throughout history. The book offers a thorough examination of persuasive oratory techniques, supported by extensive examples from famous speeches, and presents new insights for effective communication.

This volume is designed for individuals aiming to improve their public speaking abilities, providing practical guidance alongside scholarly investigation. It serves as a vital resource for aspiring civil servants, lawyers, business professionals, politicians, and students of linguistics and communication.
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The book is ideal for professionals and students interested in enhancing their public speaking skills, including civil servants, legal practitioners, business leaders, politicians, and academics in linguistics and political or business communication.

Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art. This book illustrates the use of various linguistic devices and persuasive strategies and systematically draws on the various approaches to public speaking and persuasive discourse to present new insights and techniques.

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Understanding 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.
Focuses on the needs of those who want to brush up their public speaking skills.

The volume will be a key reference for aspiring civil servants, lawyers, business and corporate professionals, and politicians. It will be of great interest to scholars of linguistics, and political and business communication.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367086053

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge India

Illustration: 5 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 136

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About the Author

Braj Mohan is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics and Contemporary English at the English and Foreign Languages University, Lucknow Campus. He has a PhD in Linguistics and specializes in Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics. He has published numerous articles in the area of persuasive oratory and political rhetoric.