Available online 2 February 2011 The purpose of thepaper is to investigatewhetherpeople consider someone a charismatic speaker because they are deploying the generic features commonly identified as being associated with charismatic oratory in the literature, or whether the attribution of charisma is informed by factors which vary across different settings. Video-taped extracts from speeches giv...

The aim of this paper is to examine in Cicero's oratory speeches the criticisms his opponents regarding either their lack erudition or poor intellectual abilities. From our viewpoint, original locus invective closely linked consolidation a new nobilitas at end Roman Republic and especially relevant context return from exile.

The article discusses ways of effective conducting speaking lessons in high school and higher educational institutions. As a result, not only speech skills improve, but also oratory skills, critical thinking develop, discussion dialogue respect for the interlocutor, ability using argumentation evidence during public speeches develop.

In this paper, we introduce results for the task of Automatic Public Speech Assessment (APSA). Given the comparably sparse work carried out on this task up to this point, a novel database was required for training and evaluation of machine learning models. As a basis, the freely available oral presentations of the ICASSP conference in 2011 were selected due to their transcription including non-...

In conclusion, we should like to add two admonitions. First, criticism is an art, not the raw tables or summaries of scholarship. The scholarship is a necessary prerequisite, and the formal reports, the compilations of the learned monograph, are essential to criticism. We have too much of unimaginative word counting, the pedestrian assemblage of arguments, the methodical and generalized comment...