Readings in Speech.

by Haig A. Bosmajian

Articles, book chapters, essays, dialogues, and Supreme Court decisions on subjects both theoretical and practical suppl background material on ethics in persuasion, free speech, and the techniques of the demagogue, along with immediately applicable information on types of speeches, speech organization and preparation, argumentation, persuasion, barriers to communication, audience analysis, language, and style.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1971

About the author

Haig Aram Bosmajian was an author, lecturer, and professor, who received the 1983 Orwell Award for his book The Language of Oppression (1974). Haig Bosmajian received a PhD in 1960 from Stanford University. His work has explored rhetoric and the freedom of speech.[2] Bosmajian was professor emeritus at the University of Washington, in the Speech/Communications Department, where he taught since 1965. He was married for 57 years to Hamida Bosmajian, also a published author and a professor at nearby Seattle University.

Haig and Hamida Bosmajian wrote the textbook, The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement (1969), which has been published as a student textbook to analyze strategies of rhetoric.