Includes bibliographical references and index.
Speaking -- Preparation : anticipating the speaker -- Complex syntax : compression -- Word order : clusters -- General adverbial clauses -- Untranslatability -- Figures of speech -- Argumentation -- Diction : register -- Formal style -- A policy address -- Quotations, allusions, transposition -- Political discourse -- Economic discourse -- Humor -- Latinisms -- Numbers -- Note-taking.
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