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The gift of the gab : how eloquence works /
"We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal,...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford, U.K :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- Value-added speech
- Eloquence everywhere
- Knowing how
- How long have I got?
- Where will I be?
- Who am I talking to? (To whom am I talking?)
- Who am I talking to
- abroad?
- What to say?
- When do you say it?
- How do they do it? The memory game
- How do they do it? The rule of three
- How do they do it? Weight control
- How do they do it? Order, order
- How do they do it? Variation
- How do they do it? Being natural
- Sounding
- natural
- Rates of exchange
- The melody lingers on
- Build-ups, beats, and breaks
- Paralanguage
- Mind your technology
- Talking about content ...
- Reading it
- Nerve ending
- Homo eloquens
- Appendix 1 Obama's victory speech delivered at Grant Park, Chicago, 4 November 2008
- Appendix 2 Martin Luther King's speech delivered at the March on Washington, 28 August 1963
- Endnotes
- Further reading
- Index of personalities
- Index of subjects
- Illustration credits