Este sitio utiliza cookies para ofrecer nuestros servicios, mejorar el rendimiento, análisis y (si no estás registrado) publicidad. Al usar LibraryThing reconoces que has leído y comprendido nuestros términos de servicio y política de privacidad. El uso del sitio y de los servicios está sujeto a estas políticas y términos.
How to speak out! "Australians Speak Out" is packed with examples and insights to reveal how extraordinary Australians used ordinary words to move hearts and minds. Now needed more than ever, here's a treasury of truthful, lawful, and just speech. Rodney Miller takes a fresh look at the persuasive language styles of notable Australians, from the 1890s to the 21st century. He reviews how everyday words attract attention, change attitudes, and move people to action!Making representative democracy thrive, with the power of words. For anyone wanting to understand persuasive language, Miller shares how prime ministers, other community leaders, and advocates of change found common ground with audiences. He illustrates metaphor, humour, polemic, propaganda, anaphora, political jargon, and rhetorical flair that appeal to our reason and emotions.Why and how notable Australians spoke out to federate colonies of Britain in the South Pacific as one nation, make Australian women among the first to vote, in 1902, appeal directly to the people of the United States for wartime support, establish rights for First Nations, challenge sexism, reform laws to respect human rights, control guns, deal with the coronavirus pandemic, and advance many other causes. Whether you'd like to speak out or assess persuasive language, this book describes the ways that word choice, sentence shape, and passage development enable successful arguments for change. Detailing rhetorical strength in the speeches and writing of Sir Samuel Griffith, Louisa Lawson, Alfred Deakin, Dame Nellie Melba, John Curtin, Dame Enid Lyons, Sir Robert Menzies, Oodgeroo Noonuccal [Kath Walker], Kevin Gilbert, Gough Whitlam, Germaine Greer, Bob Hawke, Sallyanne Atkinson, Michael Kirby, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Noel Pearson, Scott Morrison, and more. For ready access, a selection of notable speeches and writing is included.… (más)
▾Miembros
▾Etiquetas
Sin etiquetas
▾Listas
Ninguno
▾¿Te va a gustar?
Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For a great many Australian children for more than a century, one of their earliest encounters with persuasive language was in the popular story, Dot and the Kangaroo, written by Ethel C. Pendley and published in 1899.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
...persuasion...the creation in the mind of the listener
I lay blame on myself that I did not get up yesterday and examine the witnesses, but I thought that if I did so it would look like bravado and brashness.
...a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Well might he say "God save the Queen"; because nothing will save the Governor General. The proclamation you have just heard was counter-signed "Malcolm Fraser"--who will go down in history as "Kerr's Cur".
A public who listens and speaks out--a root of democracy.
We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties.
...the land is our mother.
We fight with what we have and what we have is our all. We fight for the same free institutions that you enjoy. We fight so that, in the words of Lincoln, "government of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the earth".
Sexism should always be unacceptable.
...we should show Lalor's resolution to reform the law to meet the requirements of our new, diverse, more interesting and multi-cultural community.
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
These choices enable a speaker or writer to relate to an audience, to be seen as authentic, and to move hearts and minds.
How to speak out! "Australians Speak Out" is packed with examples and insights to reveal how extraordinary Australians used ordinary words to move hearts and minds. Now needed more than ever, here's a treasury of truthful, lawful, and just speech. Rodney Miller takes a fresh look at the persuasive language styles of notable Australians, from the 1890s to the 21st century. He reviews how everyday words attract attention, change attitudes, and move people to action!Making representative democracy thrive, with the power of words. For anyone wanting to understand persuasive language, Miller shares how prime ministers, other community leaders, and advocates of change found common ground with audiences. He illustrates metaphor, humour, polemic, propaganda, anaphora, political jargon, and rhetorical flair that appeal to our reason and emotions.Why and how notable Australians spoke out to federate colonies of Britain in the South Pacific as one nation, make Australian women among the first to vote, in 1902, appeal directly to the people of the United States for wartime support, establish rights for First Nations, challenge sexism, reform laws to respect human rights, control guns, deal with the coronavirus pandemic, and advance many other causes. Whether you'd like to speak out or assess persuasive language, this book describes the ways that word choice, sentence shape, and passage development enable successful arguments for change. Detailing rhetorical strength in the speeches and writing of Sir Samuel Griffith, Louisa Lawson, Alfred Deakin, Dame Nellie Melba, John Curtin, Dame Enid Lyons, Sir Robert Menzies, Oodgeroo Noonuccal [Kath Walker], Kevin Gilbert, Gough Whitlam, Germaine Greer, Bob Hawke, Sallyanne Atkinson, Michael Kirby, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Noel Pearson, Scott Morrison, and more. For ready access, a selection of notable speeches and writing is included.
▾Descripciones de biblioteca
No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca.
▾Descripción de los miembros de LibraryThing
Descripción del libro
Resumen Haiku
Autor de LibraryThing
Rodney G. Miller es un Autor de LibraryThing, un autor que tiene listada su biblioteca personal en LibraryThing.