Inventing Public Speaking
Rhetoric and the Speech Book, 1730-1930
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12465432 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Michael Sproule (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563-608 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetoric and Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-8392 • E-ISSN: 1534-5238 |
| Publisher | Michigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/41940622 |
| OpenAlex | W1500456733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
Formerly a synonym for oratory and elocution, "public speaking" after 1900 signaled, instead, a paradigm shift whereby extemporaneous-conversational speechmaking replaced declamation and oratorical composition. This study of more than 200 key titles published between 1730 and 1930 demonstrates that the modern public-speaking book emerged, not as an innovation in whole cloth, but rather from a generation-long process of selectively recombining materials extracted from preceding text genres. As a practical revolution, the new public speaking contributed to democratic, argument-rich public affairs and, as an intellectual movement, furthered the emergence of speech as a separate academic discipline
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Composition (language · Democracy · Key (lock · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Public speaking · Rhetoric · Sociology · Synonym (taxonomy · Chemistry · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Scottish History and National Identity
Rethinking the Ethnography of Communication's Conception of Value in the Context of Globalization
Dignity for the Freaks
Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric—The Big Problem
Susan B. Anthony’s Extemporaneous Speaking for Woman Suffrage
The field of communication’s uptake of computers, networks, and the internet
Speech genres and cultural value in the Anglo-American public speaking course as a site of language socialization
Public speaking as cultural ideal
Creating a History for Public Speaking Instruction
Discursive divides and Rhetorical Staging, or the transcending function of oratory
Eighteenth-century British logic and rhetoric.
Psychology
The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Feminist Research Methodologies in Historic Rhetoric and Composition
Toward a feminist rhetoric
The Americans
Honor's Voice
History of American Schoolbooks
Hoyt H. Hudson
The Ethics and Politics of Speech
Elocution—a definition and a challenge
How much are we dependent upon the ancient Greeks and Romans
Seventeen who made history—the founders of the association
Project Speaking for Secondary Schools and Colleges
First Principles of Speech Training
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |