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... Lincoln meant by his metaphor is determined partly by the situation in which he uttered it - the Second Inaugural Address given toward the end of a bitter , bloody , internecine war . But Lincoln also provided the listener with ...
... Lincoln meant by his metaphor is determined partly by the situation in which he uttered it - the Second Inaugural Address given toward the end of a bitter , bloody , internecine war . But Lincoln also provided the listener with ...
Page 85
... Lincoln's Farewell Address given at Springfield , Illinois , as he left for Washington to assume the presidency . The first version is the text commonly ascribed to Lincoln ; the second , a reporter's notes of what he heard . Lincoln's ...
... Lincoln's Farewell Address given at Springfield , Illinois , as he left for Washington to assume the presidency . The first version is the text commonly ascribed to Lincoln ; the second , a reporter's notes of what he heard . Lincoln's ...
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... Lincoln's First Inaugural Address 56 considers his style as " a system of symbols designed to evoke certain images ... Lincoln tempers his language to " pas- sion may have strained . " Seward's " I am sure they will not be broken ...
... Lincoln's First Inaugural Address 56 considers his style as " a system of symbols designed to evoke certain images ... Lincoln tempers his language to " pas- sion may have strained . " Seward's " I am sure they will not be broken ...
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Abraham Lincoln Address ambiguity American appeal audience Bergen Evans Burke Chapter clauses Communication Company concept Constitution context dedicated Descriptive Linguistics Edward Sapir effective emphasis encoding English Ethics example freedom function word Gettysburg Address grammar Holt human I. A. Richards Ibid ideas identification Jane Blankenship Journal of Speech Kenneth Burke key words liberty Lincoln Lincoln's First Inaugural linguistic listener living M.I.T. Press manuscript speech Marie Hochmuth meaning ment metaphor nation noun object onomatopoeia oral and written oral style passage Patrick Henry peace phrases propaganda Prose Style Psychology Public Speaking Quarterly Journal redundancy relationship response Rhetoric rhythm Richard Roosevelt semantic Semantic Differential sense social sound speaker spoken Stephen Ullmann Stevenson stress structure Study suggests symbols syntactic syntax talk things tion transformational grammar United University Press verb verbal vocabulary Wallace Winston Churchill word choice writing York