Elocution

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Elocution is a study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone.

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In classical Western rhetoric, elocution is one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, which is the art of delivering speech. Orators are trained not only on proper diction, but on the proper use of body movements, attitudes, and clothing. (Another field of rhetoric, elocutio, is unrelated to elocution and, conversely, relates to the correct writing style for discourse.)

Elocution emerged as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. One of the important figures is Thomas Sheridan, actor and father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Thomas Sheridan's lecture on declamation, compiled in Elokusi Talks (1762) and Talk on Reading (1775), gives instructions for marking and reading the hard parts of the literature. Another actor, John Walker, published two volumes of Elements of Elocution in 1781, providing detailed instructions on voice control, gestures, pronunciation and emphasis.

With the publication of these and similar works, elocution gains wider public attention. While true speech training has been an important part of private education for centuries, the rise in the middle-class nineteenth century in Western countries (and the improvement of public education) led to a great interest in the teaching of elocution, and that became the subject of the school curriculum. American elocution students have drawn the choice of what is considered popular as "Speakers." By the end of this century, several Speaker texts were circulating throughout the United States, including McGuffey New Adult Speakers , Elocution and Reading Manual , Star Speakers , and Delsarte Speakers are popular. Some of these texts even include pictorial images of body movements and movements to add written descriptions.

The era of elocution of the movement, defined by people like Sheridan and Walker, evolved in the early and mid-1800s into what is called the scientific movement of elocution, defined in the early period by James Rush's The Philosophy of the Human Voice. i) (1827) and Richard Whately's Elements of Rhetoric (1828), and in later periods by Alexander Melville Bell The New Explanation of the Void Principles (1849)) and > Visible Speech (1867).

In his recent book The Women, Music, and the Spoken Word (University of Illinois Press, 2017), Marian Wilson Kimber discusses the often forgotten genre, which is dominated by hailed women with musical accompaniment. in the United States.

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Example curriculum

This example can be seen in the McGuffey List New Sixth Eclectic Reader in 1857:

Principles of Elocution

I. Articulation

II. Inflection

III. Accent and Emphasis

IV. Instructions for Reading Sentence

V. The Voice

VI. Gesture

New Sixth reader . Training in Articulation

Exercise I. - The Grotto of Antiparos

Exercise II. - The Thunder Storm

Exercise III. - Storm Description

IV. Song Spirit to Night-Wind

V. - Cataract Lodore

On Inflection

VI. - Industry Required for Orator

VII. - Old Home Clock [ etc. ]

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Also see

• Philology
• Diction

Other shapes

• Homeletics, Christian rhetoric
• Pronunciation, classic eocution
• Tajwid, elokusi Koran

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Reference

• Sullivan, Mark (1996). "Educating American Thoughts". At Dan Rather. Our Times . America Finds the Essence. New York: Scribner. pp.Ã, 152-157. ISBN 0-684-81573-7.

Further reading

• Carol Poster (ed.). The Elocution Movement: English rhetoric in the eighteenth century & amp; nineteenth century . Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum. ISBN: 1-84371-023-4.

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External links

• Old American textbook digital library
• An article on speeches in the 19th century education
• Digital Facsimile A.A. Griffith's , 1865
• Digital Book Lessons in Elocution by William Scott, 1820
• Drawing 2015

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