You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith

You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama Sam Leith ebook
ISBN: 1846683157, 9781846683152
Format: pdf
Page: 305
Publisher: Profile Books

Jodie Foster's 'coming out' speech at the Golden Globes was beautiful. You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obamaby Sam Leith. What possible use does the ancient art of rhetoric have in the twenty-first century? You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith. Here are some notes on what to look for. A conference speech seeks to turn, and a great conference speech succeeds in turning, “me and you” into “we.” Hence the workmanlike To adapt Barack Obama's ploce that one should “disagree without being disagreeable,” then, the effective conference speaker will use repetition without being repetitious. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith. As Sam Leith points out in his brilliant recent book, You Talkin' to Me? Aristotle said there were three appeals that rhetoric could make: ethos, pathos and logos. Rhetoric is rarely taught in colleges today, and the term is mostly used as a negative.