An Anglo-Saxon ethos -- Genre and generic competence -- A discourse analysis approach to public speaking genres -- Public speaking versus conversation -- Elaborate orality: speaking from a script -- Comparisons beween the language of conversation, writing and public speaking -- Talking to your audience -- Anchoring your speech in the context of delivery -- Rhetorical staging -- Delivery, or Actio -- Slide shows that reinforce the interaction -- The syntax of the sentence -- Managing information -- Strategies for concision -- Figures of repetition: functions -- Repetition of words and accumulation: a typology -- Macro-organisation -- Connectives -- Introduction, transitions and signing off -- Three-minute-thesis presentations (3MTs) -- Investor pitches -- TED talks -- Some characteristics of the new oratory. Speaking in English: getting started -- Staging an interaction with your audience -- Structuring your speech for listenability -- The new oratory.
Summary:
This book provides a research-led guide to public speaking in English, using the foundations of applied linguistics research to analyse elements of spoken presentation, including content, form, persona and audience interaction. The author also introduces and analyses case studies of what she calls 'the New Oratory', examining such modern speaking formats as the three-minute-thesis presentation, the investor pitch and TED talks, making this book a cutting-edge exploration of how public speaking is conducted in an increasingly digitalised world. It provides essential advice for non-native English speakers and speakers of English as a Second Language (ESL) whose work or study requires them to present in English, but will also be of interest to students and scholars of applied linguistics and business communication.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.