the delivery or a speech
As opposed to Astell's focus on style, could it be argued that Austin most values delivery (performance) of the five canons of rhetoric?
the delivery or a speech
As opposed to Astell's focus on style, could it be argued that Austin most values delivery (performance) of the five canons of rhetoric?
Most of Astell's discussion of rhetoric is devoted to style,
Therefore, could we infer that Astell valued "style" as the most important of the five canons of rhetoric?
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Many of the first textbooks on rhetoric showed pages and pages of diagrams like these ^, of ways to position every part of your body during each of the 5 steps. There are even pages that teach the proper way for women to stand (assumedly to watch the delivery).
It docs not undertake to furnish a person with something 10 say; but it does under-take to tell him how best to say that with which he has provided himself.
No invention happening here!