Public Speaking and the New Oratory

Fiona Rossette-Crake is Professor in the Department of Applied Languages at Université Paris Nanterre, France. Her research focuses on public speaking, particularly new forms that have developed over the past two decades.

“This book fills a genuine gap in the material available for students of English. It is a highly practical manual with a strong theoretical foundation. It will be of great use to those whose courses or future careers involve the ability to address a public in English. … it could well be read with profit by English-speaking students who are anxious at the thought of having to speak in public.” (David Banks, Fachsprache, June, 2020)

• Part 1: Speaking in English: Getting Started.- Chapter 1: Fostering an Anglo-Saxon Ethos.- Chapter 2: Genre and generic competence.- Chapter 3: A discourse-analysis approach to public speaking genres.- Chapter 4: Public speaking versus conversation.- Chapter 5: Elaborate orality: speaking from a script.- Part 2: Staging an interaction with your audience.- Chapter 6: Comparisons between the language of conversation, writing and public speaking.- Chapter 7: Talking to your audience.- Chapter 8: Anchoring your speech in the context of delivery.- Chapter 9: Rhetorical Staging.- Chapter 10: Delivery, or action.- Chapter 11: Slideshows that reinforce the interaction.- Part 3: Structuring your speech for listenability.- Chapter 12: The syntax of the sentence.- Chapter 13: Managing information.- Chapter 14: Strategies for concision.- Chapter 15:Figures of repetition: functions.- Chapter 16: Repetition of words and accumulation: a typology.- Chapter 17: Macro-organisation.- Chapter 18: Connectives.- Chapter 19: Introductions, transitions and signing off.- Part 4: The New Oratory.- Chapter 20: Three-Minute-Thesis Presentations (3MT).- Chapter 21: Investor pitches.- Chapter 22: TED talks.- Chapter 23: Some characteristics of the New Oratory.