#elocution

Pauline Hanson says there can’t be any social cohesion unless we all speak English.

Practice saying this rhyme:

03/15/2024

The Enunciation.

"Postures unfavourable to vocal delivery", from A System of Elocution (1846) by Andrew Comstock [x]

Alternatively, people who are having a good old reading sesh and don't care what pernickety authors think of them. A particular shout-out to Number 7, because she's definitely living her best life.

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The art of public speaking goes beyond the mastery of the voice and includes the addition of expressive gestures to punctuate the speaker’s points. These illustrations, taken from a mid-nineteenth century manual, demonstrate the correct movement of a speaker’s arms. Although the author states that the arms are “little more than an agent for moving the hand,” he goes into great detail concerning proper, smooth movement. Rather than describing the phenomenon, it is presented using a universal coordinate system that is supplemented with illustrated examples.

Images from: Merrit Caldwell’s A practical manual of elocution… Portland: Sanborn and Carter, 1849.

Call number: PN4111 .C27 1849