The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works

Crystal, David

The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works - New Haven Yale University Press 2016 - 243p

1. Value-added Speech
2. Eloquence Everywhere
3. Knowing How
4. How Long Have I Got?
5. Where Will I Be?
6. Who am I Talking To? (To Whom Am I Talking?)
7. Who am I Talking to Abroad?
8. What to Say?
9. When Do You Say It?
10. How Do They Do It? The Memory Game
11. How Do They Do It? The Rule of Three
12. How Do They Do It? Weight Control
13.How Do They Do It? Order, Order
14. How Do They Do It? Variation
15. How Do They Do It? Being Natural
16. Sounding
17. Rates of Exchange
18. The Melody Lingers On
19. Build-ups, Beats, and Breaks
20. Paralanguage
21. Mind Your Technology
22. Talking About Content...
23. Reading It
24. Nerve Ending
25. Homo Eloquens

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Oral Communication
Eloquence in Literature
Storytelling

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