Rhetorical Public Speaking

by Crick, Nathan

• ISBN13: 9780205665587
• ISBN10: 0205665586
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-03
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Rhetorical Public Speaking offers students and advanced approach to public speaking. It begins with Aristotle's five canons of rhetoric and progresses into a sophisticated outline of understanding, constructing, and delivering artful rhetoric, incorporating scholarship on mediated communication, pragmatic speaking genres, the rhetorical situation, and aesthetic form. Detailing some of the most powerful acts of public speaking in history, including such diverse figures as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan B. Anthony, Charlton Heston, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Steven Colbert, this text aims to encourage students to be engaged citizens of society. It hopes to strengthen the future of American Democracy by planting the seeds of public advocacy in students through the rhetorical skill set offered in the text. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Introduction	p. vii
Introduction to Public Speaking	p. xiv
The Canons of Rhetoric	p. 1
The First Canon: Invention	p. 3
The Second Canon: Arrangement	p. 9
The Third Canon: Style	p. 19
The Fourth Canon: Memory	p. 27
The Fifth Canon: Delivery	p. 28
The Genres of Public Speaking	p. 37
The Context for Written Speech	p. 42
The Context for Online Communication	p. 43
The Context for Public Speaking	p. 45
Specific Contexts for Public Speaking	p. 47
Speeches of Introduction	p. 48
Speeches of Identification	p. 49
Speeches of Deliberation	p. 49
Speeches of Solicitation	p. 50
Speeches of Commemoration	p. 51
Speeches of Enrichment	p. 52
Speeches of Administration	p. 53
Speeches of Advocacy	p. 53
The Rhetorical Situation	p. 59
Rhetorical Foreground and Background	p. 60
The Rhetorical Background	p. 62
The Public	p. 62
The Open Society	p. 63
The Public Sphere	p. 64
Status	p. 66
Public Opinion	p. 67
Convention	p. 68
Social Knowledge	p. 69
The Rhetorical Foreground	p. 73
Exigence	p. 73
Practical Judgment	p. 77
Audience	p. 79
Constraints	p. 81
Speaker	p. 84
Occasion	p. 85
Purpose	p. 88
Message	p. 90
Persuasion and Motivation	p. 99
Belief	p. 101
Reason	p. 105
Value	p. 109
Feeling	p. 111
Emotion	p. 114
Imagination	p. 117
Attitude	p. 120
Constructing Artful Rhetoric	p. 128
Ethos	p. 129
Persona	p. 130
Evoked Audience	p. 134
Identification	p. 136
Distinction	p. 137
Polarization	p. 139
Logos	p. 146
Logical Reasoning	p. 147
Generalization	p. 149
Analogy	p. 151
Sign	p. 153
Causation	p. 154
Principle	p. 156
Fallacies in Logic	p. 158
Either/Or	p. 160
Slippery Slope	p. 160
Bandwagon	p. 160
Ad Hominem	p. 161
False Cause	p. 162
Scapegoating	p. 162
Red Herring	p. 163
Non Sequitur	p. 163
Narrative Rationality	p. 164
Pathos	p. 173
Utopia	p. 176
Wasteland	p. 178
Virtue	p. 179
Vice	p. 180
Saint	p. 181
Sinner	p. 183
Idol	p. 184
Abomination	p. 186
Style	p. 191
Types of Form	p. 193
Conventional Form	p. 193
Syllogistic Form	p. 194
Repetitive Form	p. 196
Qualitative Form	p. 197
Symbol	p. 198
Poetic Categories	p. 203
Tragedy	p. 204
Comedy	p. 206
Didactic	p. 208
Elegy	p. 210
Burlesque	p. 212
Grotesque	p. 214
Index	p. 223
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