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Public speaking hinges on reference not only to the audience but also to the speakers themselves and to the place and time of delivery—two aspects which are taken up in this chapter, which covers developing your personal ethos, speaking in the name of a community and referring to the here-and-now.
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Semi-final of the debating tournament of the French Debating Association, 2012.
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Winning speech delivered at the MIT Start-up weekend in 2010; transcribed from video retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBNJh2rOOlI.
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During the delivery itself, Abraham Lincoln did not read from a fully written script but reportedly spoke from a few notes. It was afterwards that he reproduced a written version for posterity. Several written versions of the speech exist, and the most frequently quoted has been reproduced here. While this text does not coincide word for word with what Lincoln actually said on the day, it corresponds to the mark he wanted to leave on English oratory. For a detailed discussion of the different written versions that are available for the Gettysburg address, from which this text is taken, see G. Wills (1992) Lincoln at Gettysburg. The Words that Remade America. New York: Somon & Schuster.
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Donovan, J. (2014). How to Deliver a TED Talk. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Rossette-Crake, F. (2019). Anchoring Your Speech in the Context of Delivery. In: Public Speaking and the New Oratory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22086-0_8
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