Rossette-Crake Fiona. Public Speaking and the New Oratory: A Guide for Non-native Speakers

Springer, 2019. — 285 p.The aim of this book is to provide specific guidelines for the non-native speaker to address a public in English. It includes an appraisal of the New Oratory, and places it within the framework of the English-language oratory tradition, as well as the constraints of the specific communicational set-up that constitutes public address.
For the non-native speaker, addressing a public in English poses two types of challenges. The first challenge is linguistic: speakers need to grasp forms of language that lend themselves to a context of oral monologue. Despite the many communication guides and public speaking manuals that are available, this aspect—how to script the speech—is not dealt with directly to cater for the non-native speaker.
Public speaking, particularly in its new forms, poses the more general challenge of communicational competence, underpinned by cultural and generic constraints that are both linguistic and paralinguistic in nature. Taking the floor in English requires an understanding of the cultural implications of the choices of the speaker. It also requires the speaker to be sensitive to constraints that are specific to each type of speech. The other main aim of this book is therefore to tackle these issues pertaining to communicational competence which also play a decisive role in the scripting of each specific speech.Focuses on the reality of English as an ever-developing, global medium of communication.
Deals directly with language resources and caters specifically to non-native speakers.
Highlights the new needs of public speaking practitioners, using examples of contemporary speech formats such as three-minute-thesis presentations and TED talks.
Follows in the tradition of applied linguistics, offering a balance between theory and practice.