Our Masters' Voices¶
Atkinson. (1984). Our Masters' Voices: The Language and Body Language of Politics. Routledge.
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- Antithesis
- Classical oratory — catalogued from Gorgias and Isocrates onward as a core schema, treated in Aristotle's Rhetoric as one of the figures that produces asteia (Kennedy's "urbanities"). Political and persuasive speech — standard speechwriter equipment from Lincoln and Churchill to Kennedy and Obama, where the matched frame delivers a reversal on the beat
This sourceAtkinson's analysis of the 'contrast' (contrastive pair) as deliberately deployed political-speech equipment whose completion functions as an invitation to applaud, landing on a predictable beat; the book's corpus is 1980s oratory, so the Lincoln-to-Obama span is the article's own.
- Classical oratory — catalogued from Gorgias and Isocrates onward as a core schema, treated in Aristotle's Rhetoric as one of the figures that produces asteia (Kennedy's "urbanities"). Political and persuasive speech — standard speechwriter equipment from Lincoln and Churchill to Kennedy and Obama, where the matched frame delivers a reversal on the beat
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