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... look at two versions of the Gettysburg Address , the first as delivered by Abraham Lincoln , the second as another speaker might have given it.11 We shall try to determine what each speaker " saw " and how he " saw " it , in short , at ...
... look at two versions of the Gettysburg Address , the first as delivered by Abraham Lincoln , the second as another speaker might have given it.11 We shall try to determine what each speaker " saw " and how he " saw " it , in short , at ...
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... look at an " off - the - cuff " speech , delivered in Doland , South Dakota . Although aimed at its immediate audience , the speech had a far more general appeal with its blend of " nostalgia and hope " : I want to say that there are ...
... look at an " off - the - cuff " speech , delivered in Doland , South Dakota . Although aimed at its immediate audience , the speech had a far more general appeal with its blend of " nostalgia and hope " : I want to say that there are ...
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... look “ right at them . " A seating arrangement of the amphitheater where the speech was delivered was drawn on the blackboard ; on this diagram each person marked the place where he had been sitting , showing that members of the group ...
... look “ right at them . " A seating arrangement of the amphitheater where the speech was delivered was drawn on the blackboard ; on this diagram each person marked the place where he had been sitting , showing that members of the group ...
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Abraham Lincoln Address ambiguity American appeal audience Bergen Evans Burke Chapter clauses Communication Company concept Constitution context dedicated Descriptive Linguistics Dictionary Edward Sapir effective emphasis encoding English Ethics example freedom function word Gettysburg Address 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 syntax talk things tion transformational grammar United University Press verb verbal vocabulary Wallace Winston Churchill word choice writing York