You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith

You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama Sam Leith ebook
Page: 305
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1846683157, 9781846683152
Publisher: Profile Books

A conference speech seeks to turn, and a great conference speech succeeds in turning, “me and you” into “we.” Hence the workmanlike To adapt Barack Obama's ploce that one should “disagree without being disagreeable,” then, the effective conference speaker will use repetition without being repetitious. The Neurocritic on the return of physiognomy. And on to Maxine's extra questions. Come on, Barry, one wants to say. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith. 4 The last book I bought: You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith. Until I read a book just recently I didn't quite understand how important the mastery of this could be for leaders and managers too (and I don't mean the mastery of empty rhetoric!). Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama (Profile). Here are some notes on what to look for. The president gave a smash-hits selection of oratorical devices, from emphatic anaphora to substantial synthetonPresident Obama's second inaugural, as far as rhetoric goes, was the equivalent of a greatest hits album knocked out in " tempered"; "snow-capped peaks"; "that precious light of freedom"? 5 The last book I was given: Mordets Praktik by Kerstin Ekman. Aristotle said there were three appeals that rhetoric could make: ethos, pathos and logos. You Talkin To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama ' Sam Leith 2011 Profile Books 305 1846683157,9781846683152. € Sam Leith is the author of You Talkin' To Me?