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Book:Name: IELTS Speaking (2006 TianJun University Press)
Format: pdf
Size: 20.08 MB
Description:Title: A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
Author: Christopher Grasso
Language: polski
Year: 2012
Subjects: History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, United States History, Linguistics & Semiotics, Regional Studies, United States History - Northeastern & Middle Atlantic Region, United States Studies, Connecticut - State & Local History, Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis, Regional Studies - Northeast & Middle Atlantic U.S., Rhetoric, Sociolinguistics
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
ISBN: 9780807839201
Total pages: 126
Download from RapidGatorAs cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new ways. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut.
In New England through the first half of the century, only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century, concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people but rather as a civic conversation of the people.
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