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Public Speaking
- The stakes of public discourse.
Types of discourse (genera orationis): judiciary, deliberative, demonstrative.
- The first step in preparing a discourse: clarifying the objectives. Estimating the circumstance in which the discourse will be presented and the audience to whom it is designated for.
- Identifying the arguments which can be used (inventio).
- Organizing the arguments (dispositio).
Magnification and reduction techniques. Arranging the arguments hierarchically in order to achieve the anticipated effect.
- The discourse oriented towards the tackled problem (logos).
The discourse oriented towards arousing the emotional reaction of the audience (pathos).
- The discourse which brings in the foreground the orator’s image (ethos).
- Choosing the adequate style to write the discourse (elocutio).
The stylistic qualities of eloquence.
- Memorizing techniques for organizing and pronouncing the discourse (memoria).
- Elaboration and improvisation in preparing and pronouncing the discourse.
- The decisive moment of the oratorical art: making the speech (actio).
- Criteria and techniques of evaluation and self-evaluation of the oratorical performance.
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ERUDIO Workshops:
April, 2010
Irony and self irony
in public speech
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