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Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone as well as the idea and practice of effective speech and its forms. It stems from the idea that while communication is symbolic, sounds are final and compelling.
Elocutio (lexis or phrasis in Greek) [1] [2] is a Latin term for the mastery of rhetorical devices and figures of speech in Western classical rhetoric. [2] Elocutio or style is the third of the five canons of classical rhetoric (the others being inventio, dispositio, memoria, and pronuntiatio) that concern the craft and delivery of speeches and writing.
She began teaching at 18 [1] and was known as a teacher for many years before graduation from elocutionary school. [3]Hume was prominent in elocutionary work in St. Louis. She and her sister, Mazy Williamson, also gave elocutionary entertainments in various parts of the West.
Practitioners of elocution. Pages in category "Elocutionists" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. ... Code of Conduct; Developers;
James Bernard (11 April 1874 – 5 March 1946) was a reciter, elocutionist, author, Primitive Methodist and Unitarian lay preacher. Bernard was well known for his frequent radio broadcasts of 'character sketches' in the 1920s and early '30s (from early BBC studios; Manchester 2ZY and Savoy Hill in London) [1] and as a foremost teacher of 'dramatic interpretation' in the North West of England.
He returned to London, where he appears to have carried on his profession as "teacher of reading, elocution, grammar, and composition" for several years. In 1829 he seems to have joined his son in Glasgow, where he brought out a little book on Orthoëpy and Elocution. About this time, though he was now seventy and suffering from a painful ...
Maria Brace Kimball (July 20, 1852 — 1933) was an American elocutionist who taught, lectured, and wrote on the subject. She was an instructor in elocution and lecturer on dramatic literature in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts; lecturer on French theatre and dramatic literature in schools; teacher of elocution in Brearley School, New York City, 1883–92.
After running a school at Kensington, Walker began to teach elocution, and this became his principal employment for the rest of his life. He was the friend of the leading literary men of his time, including Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke .