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The Role Of Eloquence In Shaping Political HistoryĮloquence, as we have seen, is the close study of how to get a message to live in the minds of an audience. Reflect upon what are the factors of eloquence you would include in your speech to make your customers trust your brand/ team again. If you are a student, consider a situation wherein you have to deliver a speech to restore credibility about a team you are leading after it goofs up a pre-fest event. Now, consider a situation where you have to deliver a speech wherein you are now required to restore brand credibility after a proven glitch from your company’s end. I’d then suggest we choose to reflect a sense of belief in our voice, stand light on feet, move laterally across the stage using gestures congruent with the content, voices and expressions, maintain an air of playfulness while coming up with ways to build connections with the audience through our narration and let the synergy of these factors lead our way towards being an eloquent speaker. Then we will want to elicit curiosity, wonder, excitement, sense of discovery and build a sense of closeness and partnership with the audience. Let’s say we have to deliver a speech about a new product/ technology/ service to be introduced by our company to the public. To elaborate on this very idea, consider what state you want your audience to be in and then consider what state you have to be in to put your audience in that state.
Feel the passion towards the motherland when you want to evoke feelings of patriotism, truly feel the pain of the families of the martyrs if you are giving a condolence speech, submit to yourself first if you want others to submit to you. To ensure your audience connects to the message you wish to convey, make sure you feel passionately about what you are going to say, have a strong belief in everything that you want others to believe in and reflect that confidence during the delivery through your voice, eye contact, body language.įeel what you want the audience to feel. This is in fact the message Valerie Kaur wished her audience to take home. Here, above all, if Valerie wasn’t truly feeling what she wanted her audience to feel, the speech wouldn’t be as impactful.įew examples for how this speech has remained in the minds of the people can be seen below: Again, it’s a synergy of a couple of factors appropriately selected keeping in mind the context of the speech and audience.
So here’s how it is, for eloquence, one needn’t check boxes of every factor that lead to it. It usually indicates nervousness, but here it did not contribute to making the speech any less eloquent. I haven’t mentioned body language because I wasn’t particularly a fan of the slight wobble in her stance and the constant pursing of the lips together during speech delivery. If we closely listen to the video and break down the aspects that helped us connect with the speech, my list would have the following: use of personal stories with use of descriptive speech leading to imagery in the mind of the audience, short yet impactful sentences, the progression of the speech from the dark reality of the present to an optimism about the future, the strong feelings with which she presented the speech, strength in her voice, pace and voice modulation. And it was only later that I came to know of Valerie Kaur, the speaker in the video. It was strange because I am not an American, in fact I have never visited America. I was left deeply moved, yet optimistic about the future of the minority community in America. I recently watched a video of a woman speaking for the Sikh community in America.
It then paves way towards shaping the realities that they believe in by touching the chords of the heart. This synergistic effect of the underlying factors helps in solving one simple problem: it converges the attention of the wandering minds of the audience to register the crux of the discourse. Winston Churchill has described it as the fusion of speaker, delivery, matter-at-issue, language, image, occasion, and audience into a live articulation of meaning-into a commanding moment of eloquence (Jasinski 199).Īs a student in rhetoric study, I would coin eloquence as a synergy of the body language, eye contact, delivery, pace, movement, follow of decorum, emotional appeal, audience centric weaving of the speech together, voice modulation at play. Scholars have termed Eloquence to be a fusion of factors. This talks about the importance of keeping the persona of the audience and the decorum in mind while crafting and presenting a speech. One of the claims was that “eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak” (Jasinski 199).
Figure 1 Signs of an effective vs an ineffective speech Image Credits: DailyWisdomWordsīut what is eloquence really? Through time, we can find multiple instances where scholars have tried to define eloquence.
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