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  1. Nemanja Savic, “Hope in the Voices of Africa,” speech
    delivered at Wake Forest University, 14 May 2006. Window
    on Wake Forest. 15 May 2006.

  2. Max Woodfin, “Three among Many Lives Jordan
    Touched,” Austin American-Statesman 20 1996: A13.

  3. Paul Roberts, “How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred
    Words,” in William H. Roberts and Gregoire Turgeson,
    eds., About Language (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986) 28.

  4. George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” in
    William H. Roberts and Gregoire Turgeson, eds., About
    Language (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986) 282.

  5. Erma Bombeck, “Missing Grammar Genes Is, Like, the
    Problem,” Austin American-Statesman 3 March 1992.

  6. Sik Ng and James J. Bradac, Power in Language: Verbal
    Communication and Social Influence. Language and Language
    Behaviors, Vol. 3 (1993). http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/
    1993-98279-000

  7. John Lister, quoted in “At the End of the Day, It Annoys,”
    Associated Press, 24 March 2004.

  8. Shelley Matheson, “The Most Annoying Chichés Ever,”
    The Scottish Sun 8 January 2010.

  9. William Safire, “Words at War,” New York Times Magazine
    30 September 2001.

  10. John S. Seiter, Jarrod Larsen, and Jacey Skinner, “‘Handi-
    capped’ or ‘Handicapable?’: The Effects of Language
    about Persons with Disabilities on Perceptions of Source
    Credibility and Persuasiveness,” Communication Reports
    11:1 (1998): 21–31.

  11. Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution (New York:
    Random House, 1990) 71.

  12. Michael M. Klepper, I’d Rather Die Than Give a Speech (New
    York: Carol Publishing Group, 1994) 45.

  13. We acknowledge the following source for several examples
    used in our discussion of language style: William
    Jordan, “Rhetorical Style,” Oral Communication Handbook
    (Warrensburg: Central Missouri State U, 1971–1972) 32–34.

  14. Eric Stolhanske, “Advice from a Kid with a Wooden Leg,”
    Vital Speeches of the Day (July 2012): 211–16.

  15. Scott Davis, “Class Begins Today,” Vital Speeches of the Day
    (August 2011): 279–80.

  16. Samuel Hazo, “Poetry and Public Speech,” Vital Speeches of
    the Day (1 April 2007): 685–89.

  17. Michiko Kakutani, “Struggling to Find Words for a Horror
    Beyond Words,” New York Times 13 September 2001: E1.

  18. Franklin Roosevelt, inaugural address of 1933 (Washington,
    DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1988) 22.

  19. George F. Will, “‘Let Us.. .’? No, Give It a Rest,” Newsweek
    22 January 2001: 64.

  20. John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 20 January 1961,
    in Bower Aly and Lucille F. Aly, eds., Speeches in English
    (New York: Random House, 1968) 272.

  21. Barack Obama, “Can We Honestly Say We’re Doing
    Enough?” Vital Speeches of the Day (February 2013): 34–35.

  22. Garrison Keillor, The Writer’s Almanac, 20 August 2012.

  23. Barack Obama, “Look at the World through Their Eyes,”
    Vital Speeches of the Day (1 May 2013): 138–42.

  24. Roosevelt, inaugural address of 1933.

  25. William Faulkner, speech in acceptance of the Nobel Prize
    for Literature, delivered 10 December 1950, in Houston


Peterson, ed., A Treasury of the World’s Great Speeches (New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1965) 814–15.


  1. David Brooks, baccalaureate address at Sewanee: The
    University of the South. Sewanee Today 11 May 2013.

  2. Roosevelt, inaugural address of 1933.

  3. Winston Churchill, address to the Congress of the United
    States, delivered on 26 December 1941, in Bower Aly and
    Lucille F. Aly, eds., Speeches in English (New York: Random
    House, 1968) 233.

  4. Barack Obama, inaugural address of 2013, washingtonpost
    .com, 21 January 2013.

  5. Adapted from Jordan, Oral Communication Handbook, 34.

  6. Kennedy, inaugural address.

  7. “Reference to Rape Edited from Graduation Speech,”
    Kansas City Star 5 June 1995: B3.
    Chapter 13 Delivering Your Speech

  8. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601.

  9. For an excellent discussion of the importance of speaker de-
    livery according to both classical and contemporary rhetori-
    cians, see J. Fredal, “The Language of Delivery and the Pres-
    entation of Character: Rhetorical Action in Demosthenes’
    ‘Against Meidias,’” Rhetoric Review 20 (2001): 251–67.

  10. James W. Gibson, John A. Kline, and Charles R. Gruner,
    “A Reexamination of the First Course in Speech at U.S.
    Colleges and Universities,” Speech Teacher 23 (September
    1974): 206–14.

  11. Steven A. Beebe and Thompson Biggers, “The Effect of
    Speaker Delivery upon Listener Emotional Response,”
    paper presented at the International Communication
    Association meeting, May 1989.

  12. Ray Birdwhistle, Kinesics and Context (Philadelphia:
    University of Pennsylvania, 1970).

  13. Judee K. Burgoon and Beth A. Le Poire, “Nonverbal Cues
    and Interpersonal Judgments: Participant and Observer
    Perceptions of Intimacy, Dominance, Composure, and For-
    mality,” Communication Monographs 66 (1999): 105–24; Beth
    A. Le Poire and Stephen M. Yoshimura, “The Effects of Expec-
    tancies and Actual Communication on Nonverbal Adaptation
    and Communication Outcomes: A Test of Interaction Adapta-
    tion Theory,” Communication Monographs 66 (1999): 1–30.

  14. Albert Mehrabian, Nonverbal Communication (Hawthorne:
    Aldine, 1972).

  15. D. Lapakko, “Three Cheers for Language: A Closer
    Examination of a Widely Cited Study of Nonverbal
    Communication,” Communication Education 46 (1997): 63–67.

  16. Elaine Hatfield, J. T. Cacioppo, and R. L. Rapson, Emotional
    Contagion (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994);
    also see John T. Cacioppo, Gary G. Berntson, Jeff T. Larsen,
    Kirsten M. Poehlmann, and Tiffany A. Ito, “The Psycho-
    physiology of Emotion,” in Michael Lewis and Jeannette
    M. Haviland-Jones, eds., Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed.
    (New York: Guilford Press, 2004) 173–91.

  17. Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen, and K. R. Schere, “Body
    Movement and Voice Pitch in Deception Interaction,”
    Semiotica 16 (1976): 23–27; Mark Knapp, R. P. Hart,
    and H. S. Dennis, “An Exploration of Deception as a
    Communication Construct,” Human Communication Re-
    search 1 (1974): 15–29.


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