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delivery: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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delivery1 CONSTRUCTRhetorical deliveryQUINTILIAN · ACTIO

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Rhetoric

one of the five canons of rhetoric: presenting a speech through voice and body, including pace, tone, and gesture.

In classical rhetoric, delivery is one of the five canons of the art, the manner in which a speech is presented through the voice and the body: its pace, volume, tone, gesture, and expression. Cicero and Quintilian called it actio or pronuntiatio, and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria (Book XI, in Russell's 2001 edition) argued that even a well-composed speech fails if it is delivered poorly. The referent is the physical performance of spoken words before an audience, judged by how the speaker sounds and moves, and it shares nothing with a birth, a shipment of goods, or a financial contract beyond the word.[1]

Unit
A single spoken performance of a composed speech
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Judged qualitatively by control of voice, gesture, and expression before an audience

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References

  1. Quintilian. (2001). The orator's education (Institutio oratoria) (D. A. Russell, Ed. & Trans.). Harvard University Press. (Original work published ca. 95 CE)

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