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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHart, Roderick P., _eauthor. _920969
245	1	0	_aAmerican eloquence : _blanguage and leadership in the twentieth century / _cRoderick P. Hart.
246	3		_aAmerican eloquence : _blanguage and leadership in the 20th century
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2023]
300			_a1 online resource (274 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aEloquence: why? -- Eloquence: when and where? -- Eloquence: how? -- Cultural resonance -- Personal investment -- Poetic imagination -- Eloquence assessed -- Eloquence tomorrow.
520			_a"This book examines a wide swath of political discourse-some old and some contemporary-looking for what makes political speech persuasive, eloquent, and concise. Focusing mainly on twentieth century oratory and using computer-based methods of analysis, the political scientist Roderick P. Hart argues that eloquence is the byproduct of cultural resonance, personal investment, and poetic imagination. As Catherine Nicholson has said, "to speak English eloquently is to speak it strangely." Taking this literally, to say that something is "strange" is to say that it is statistically anomalous, deviating in important ways from a cache of other texts. Therefore persuasive political speech stands apart from mundane conversation, stirring emotions and spurring action. This work in the digital humanities considers some 60,000 textual documents to which were applied a computer program called DICTION, a utility that has been used in over 700 published studies throughout the humanities and social sciences during the last forty years. Although based on objective data, 80 percent of the manuscript features the author's critical analysis of the most important speeches of the twentieth century. Each chapter features texts that fundamentally changed life in the United States, texts authored by speakers ranging from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Lou Gehrig, from Woodrow Wilson to Hillary Clinton, from Mario Savio to Mario Cuomo"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2023).
590			_aWorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050
650		0	_aPolitical oratory _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _920970
650		0	_aSpeeches, addresses, etc., American _xHistory and criticism. _920971
650		7	_aPolitical oratory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01069380 _920972
650		7	_aSpeeches, addresses, etc., American. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01129325 _920973
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650		7	_aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies _2bisacsh _913612
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635 _95662
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628 _93689
655		4	_aElectronic books. _93907
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aHart, Roderick P. _tAmerican eloquence _dNew York : Columbia University Press, [2023] _z9780231209069 _w(DLC) 2022023409
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