scholarly journals Prosodic Peculiarities of Repetition as a Rhetorical Device in Public Speech

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Natalia Nestereko ◽  
Catherine Lyssenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Speaking ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Emotional Effect ◽  
Invariant Features ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Rhetorical Questions

The article deals with the peculiarities of the intonation design of certain elements of such rhetorical reception as a repetition on the material of audio recordings of Shakespeare's plays in chronology, namely rhetorical questions related to expressions of a peculiar interogative modality. The article deals with the results of the study of the invariant features of the prosody of the interrogative sentences in dramatic discourse in chronological terms. Repetition as a means of emotional enhancementis considered. In public speaking, repetition serves as a means of expressing a specific function of information -convincing which adds a rich emotional and intonational content. Through repetition, the speaker deepens the semantic side of speech and heightens emotional impact. Syntactic concurrency, which is realized in the combination of repetitions of syntactic constructions and various intensifiers, has been analyzed, which is perceived as rhythmicality. The syntactical parallelism of identical questions or sentences is amplified and correlated with the identical prosodic contour of intonation groups. To achieve an emotional effect, when presentingsyntactically parallel interrogative constructions of the second and third questions, actors can violate the rule of normative intonation of a question, using a gradually ascending scale. Or, on the contrary, to adhere to the normative intonation contours, and design them according to the canonical rule.

scholarly journals Specificity of Repetition as a Rhetoric Device in public speech

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
N. M. Nesterenko ◽  
C. V. Lyssenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Speaking ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Emotional Effect ◽  
Invariant Features ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Rhetorical Questions

The article deals with the peculiarities of the intonation design of certain elements of such rhetorical reception as a repetition on the material of audio recordings of Shakespeare's plays in chronology, namely rhetorical questions related to expressions of a peculiar interogative modality. The article deals with the results of the study of the invariant features of the prosody of the interrogative sentences in dramatic discourse inchronological terms. Repetition as a means of emotional enhancement is considered. In public speaking, repetition serves as a means of expressing a specific function of information - convincing which adds a rich emotional and intonational content. Through repetition, the speaker deepens the semantic side of speech and heightens emotional impact. Syntactic concurrency, which is realized in the combination of repetitions of syntactic constructions and various intensifiers, has been analyzed, which is perceived as rhythmicality. The syntactical parallelism of identical questions or sentences is amplified and correlated with the identical prosodic contour of intonation groups. To achieve an emotional effect, when presenting syntactically parallel interrogative constructions of the second and third questions, actors can violate the rule of normative intonation of a question, using a gradually ascending scale. Or, on the contrary, to adhere to the normative intonation contours, and design them according to the canonical rule.

scholarly journals Prosodic Peculiarities of Introgatives in Theatric Public Speech as a Variety of Dramatic Soliloquy

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
Catherine Lyssenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Speaking ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Variable Parameters ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Rhetorical Questions

The article deals with specific features of perception of public speaking prosody. Speech intonation is an important component of oral text, a carrier of semantic meanings, and at the same time a means of demonstrating the emotionally expressive nature of expression. The nature and influence of public speaking depends not only on the adequately disclosed facts, but also on the very speech form of their presentation. The leading role in this process belongs to prosodic means, in which the peculiarities of public broadcasting are clearly revealed. The article examines the interrogatives of quasispontaneous public speakingmonologues from Shakespeare's plays, gathered from audio recordings of different periods of time, dating back to 30 years of the last century. This approach made it possible to compare the main features of interrogative rhetorical questions in the chronological plan. In the analysis of prosodic features of question structures, the inventory of their universal characteristics was distinguished, since there are certain normative, invariant prosodic models for the main types of questions. On the other hand, the melody should be attributed to the most variable parameters of interoactive constructions, so the most typical variants of intonational deviations were also analyzed.

scholarly journals On the Pragmatic Functions of English Rhetoric in Public Speech: A Case Study of Emma Watson’s HeForShe

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Bin Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
Communicative Effect ◽  
Sense Of Urgency

The current research is mainly conducted to explore the pragmatic functions of English rhetoric in public speech. To do this, methods of close reading and case studies are adopted. The research first reveals that the boom of public speech programs helps reexamine the art of utterance, during the delivery of which English rhetoric plays an indispensable role in shaping and expressing a speaker’s opinions, and then, with Emma Watson’s HeForShe as a case study, concludes the specific pragmatic functions of English rhetoric: parallelism helps strengthen opinions; irony shows dissatisfaction, disapproval or rejection; rhetorical questions invite no answers, but call for emphasis and sense of urgency; contrast describes difference(s) so as to show preference. Use of proper English rhetoric devices in public speaking as well as in daily life improves communicative effect and efficiency.

Canonical Relationships between Prestige and Interpersonal Attraction

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Powell ◽  
Mark L. Hickson ◽  
Sidney R. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Canonical Correlation ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Interpersonal Attraction ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Female Speaker ◽  
Physical Attraction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Prestige

Canonical correlation was employed to test the relationship between prestige and interpersonal attraction in a public speaking situation. The hypothesis was that, when responding to a public speech, subjects would make judgments about the prestige of the speaker that would serve as an inferential base regarding conclusions about the interpersonal attraction of that individual. Results indicated that males ( ns = 78, 48) made judgments of interpersonal attraction dominated by task attraction, while females ( ns 90, 69) made multiple judgments about interpersonal attraction encompassing social, task, and physical attraction. Different results were obtained for a male and a female speaker.

scholarly journals КОМУНІКАТИВНІ СТРАТЕГІЇ ДМИТРА ДОНЦОВА

2020 ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
V. Kolkutina
Keyword(s):  
Public Speaking ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Communicative Strategy ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
Literary Phenomenon ◽  
Communicative Processes

<div><em>Dmitry Dontsov’s communicative strategy is explored in the article, taking into account the national and philosophical ideas inherent to his thinking. Grounding on the material of the literary-critical essays of the publicist, it turns out that Dontsov’s communicative strategy according to the content is ethosophysical and holistic. It’s a national-existential phenomenon in the history of Ukrainian literary studies of the twentieth century. The communicative processes reflected in the essays «Crisis of our literature», «Our literary ghetto» are formed in a single communicative paradigm and include: the event, communicative situation, intonational tone, axiological author’s commentary and a special national-centric and hermeneutical way of representation of the situation.</em></div><p><em>The nationalist interpretation of the thinker is essentially national-philosophical (national), but at the same time it is literary with typical for this kind of experience, with the predominance of coherently-semantic level of cognition and evaluation over the formal-aesthetic. As a result of cognition happends the transcoding of an idea from the language of art into the language of philosophy in the search of the national-philosophical equivalent of a literary phenomenon. In most cases, this is based on two intentions: the search for protection and assertion of one’s own national identity, and the cultural and political realization of the national idea. At the same time, the aesthetic level of a literary phenomenon is evaluated. </em></p><p><em>The following characteristics of the literary-critical text are highlighted and substantiated: the text as a receptive expression that can be interpreted freely, conceptually transforms information, constructing new meanings through interesting dialogical models, rhetorical questions, pre-planned line of speech behavior, public speaking behavior, which is necessarily intended to avoid any one-sided narrative or ambiguity of perception, openness and comprehension.</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words:</em></strong> <em>communicative strategy, text, literary-critical discourse, communicative processes, national philosophy, hermeneutics.</em></p><p><strong> </strong></p>

scholarly journals Rhetorical Discourse Analysis of State of the Nation Address of Select Philippine Presidents

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilibeth A. Calonge ◽  
Ismael N. Talili
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Frequency Standard ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Weighted Mean ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Rhetorical Discourse

The art of public speaking has been one of the commonly feared tasks for some people because they are not prepared and equipped with knowledge in rhetoric. The study was conducted to analyze the State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by the three presidents of the Philippines. Speech videos and speech manuscripts were analyzed using validated rubrics. A survey was also conducted to gather information on students’ perception on the study of rhetoric. Frequency, standard deviation, and weighted mean were used to analyze the rhetorical devices and canons of rhetoric employed in the speeches. It was found out that metaphor is a common rhetorical device used by the Presidents. The results show that the canons of rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery were utilized in the speeches. Majority of the students of Rhetoric and Public Discourse, self-reported (or agreed) that the rhetorical discourse analysis of the SONA is beneficial to them as Rhetoric and Public Discourse students. The study concludes that the Presidents used the rhetorical elements and techniques to convince and influence the audience. It is recommended that the presidents (or their speech writers) should consider optimum use of the rhetorical elements and techniques to evoke the desired response from the audience.

scholarly journals Rhetoric, discourse and the hermeneutics of public speech

Politics ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 026339572093377
Author(s):  
James Martin
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

What insights and advantages do rhetorical approaches offer over other methods of exploring social and political discourse? This article aims to clarify the contribution of rhetorical analysis by exploring its distinctive, hermeneutic attention to public speech. Public speaking is, accordingly, viewed as a practice of assembling meaningful interpretations in specific situations. Central here is a temporal dimension. Analysing rhetoric involves grasping discourse, on the one hand, as concretely situated in response to proximate constraints and, on the other hand, as a medium to move beyond the situation towards a future. Following John Caputo’s reading of Derrida, I argue that, examined rhetorically, public speech enacts a ‘negotiation’ of past and future, intertwining conditional – and hence partially calculable – positions with an ‘unconditional promise’ to prepare for what comes. Although compatible with other approaches, rhetorical analysis is uniquely attuned to this intrinsically ethical and political quality of discursive action.

scholarly journals Criteria for public speech planning : characteristics of language learning

Linguistica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 381-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomaž Petek
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Correct Pronunciation ◽  
Speech Cues ◽  
Selection Of

Public speaking is understood as monological discourse production, directed at a wider or narrower public or group of people. The theoretical part of this article introduces the characteristics of effective public speaking; criteria were designed for the preparation of a public speech, and four main sections defined, i.e. a) construction of public speech (consideration of text type characteristics, appropriateness of the topic and selection of content, appropriateness of the mode of topic development, formation of a meaningful, comprehensible and integrated text); b) integral mode of public speech (fluent, natural and free speaking, clear diction); c) verbal language (social genre, selection of words consistent with the speech, grammatical correctness, correct pronunciation, formal constructions, formal [dynamic] accent), non-verbal language (auditory non-verbal speech cues, visual non-verbal speech cues). The fulfilment of these criteria was tested in practice, namely on second and third year undergraduate students (prospective teachers) (N = 211). On the whole, all the average marks of third year students were better than those of the second year students. The most common difficulty facing the students was fluent, natural and free speaking as well as appropriate topic development, whereas the most successfully fulfilled criteria were those of appropriate topic selection and consideration of text type characteristics. 

scholarly journals ЗАСИЛЕНА, МОДНА УПОТРЕБА НА ВМЪКНАТО ДА [НАИСТИНА Е ТАКА] / A NEW FASHIONABLE USE OF PARENTHETICAL ДА [НАИСТИНА Е ТАКА] (YES [INDEED, THIS IS SO])

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (68.04) ◽  
pp. 153-157
Author(s):  
CHRISTO STAMENOV
Keyword(s):  
Public Speech ◽  
Rhetorical Device

The goal of this notice is to draw the attention to a rhetorical device, currently gaining some popularity in public speech. It consists of pre-posing (i) da [‘(and) yes’] as a separate intonation group before a clause or its repetition before a series of clauses, with the pragmatic purpose of making the listener believe in what follows [‘yes indeed, this is so’] and in some cases maintaining links with what has already been said. Keywords: functions of da, emphasis, metalinguistic use, discourse, modality, pragmatics

scholarly journals Overliteralness and Mother-Tongue Translators

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Michael Cahill
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Bible Translation ◽  
Bible Translations ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Rhetorical Questions

One barrier to quality in Bible translation is a tendency for translators to translate literally from their primary source text. This is a hazard for any translator, but has particular relevance in the case of Mother-Tongue Translators (MTTs) with minimal training, who are bearing an increasingly larger role in new Bible translations around the globe. In this article, we first examine the problem of overliteralness, observing cases of RL structural adherence to the SL in direct speech, ungrammatical sentences, mistranslation of rhetorical questions, use of idioms, and neglect of discourse factors, etc. The problem of overliteralness extends to information and emotional impact implicit in the SL that is not made explicit in the RL. Reasons for overliteralness include the natural intuitiveness of translating literally, respect for the Word of God (they don’t want to change it), and MTTs’ unawareness of their own language patterns. Since translation consultants are not always familiar with the receptor language, these types of mistakes may escape notice in the checking process. Nonetheless, many MTTs do excellent translation work. We present two major factors that help MTTs avoid overliteralness. Through training and mentoring, they need to absorb the translation principle that gives them “permission” to not be literal. Next, deliberate study of structures of their own language is key, especially contrasting it with structures of the primary source language. Cases where these types of activities are already being done will be presented, and more are encouraged.

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