A truly unique introductory textbook, Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: Speech, Deliberation, and Analysis in the Civic Realm provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic skills involved in public speaking--including reasoning, organization, outlining, anxiety management, style, delivery, and more--through the lens of democratic participation. It helps students develop the skills to distinguish between productive and unproductive public discourse; participate in and lead constructive discussions of community issues; and analyze public messages as an act of civic participation. By integrating the theme of civic engagement throughout, Public Speaking and Democratic Participation offers a direct and inspiring response to the alarming decline in civic participation in the U.S. and the climate of vindictiveness in our current political culture. It equips students with the tools to reverse these tendencies and move toward a greater commitment to our shared public life.

Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: Speech, Deliberation, and Analysis in the Civic Realm

Reference

Abbott, Jennifer Y.

McDorman, Todd F.

Timmerman, David M.

Lamberton, L. Jill

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

This book contributes to the history of classical rhetoric by focusing on how key terms helped to conceptualize and organize the study and teaching of oratory. David Timmerman and Edward Schiappa demonstrate that the intellectual and political history of Greek rhetorical theory can be enhanced by a better understanding of the emergence of "terms of art" in texts about persuasive speaking and argumentation. The authors provide a series of studies to support their argument. They describe Plato's disciplining of dialgesthai into the Art of Dialectic, Socrates' alternative vision of philosophia, and Aristotle's account of demegoria and symboule as terms for political deliberation. The authors also revisit competing receptions of the Rhetoric to Alexander. Additionally, they examine the argument over when the different parts of oration were formalized in rhetorical theory, illustrating how an "old school" focus on vocabulary can provide fresh perspectives on persistent questions.

Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse

Literature & Fiction

Schiappa, Edward

Classics

Cambridge University Press

All of Jebb's Isocrates text & notes from the Attic Orators accompanied by the annotated Isocrates Greek text from his companion Selections; all newly introduced, annotated and formatted. The most complete appreciation of Isocrates ever published in English.

Jebb's Isocrates: Newly Edited

Laurén, Giles

Sophron Editor

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