Old Delivery and Modern Demagogy

How Ancient Oratorical Style and Delivery can Help us to Understand Modern Populist Speakers

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  • Andrea Balbo University of Turin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v39i4.6036

Abstract

My paper aims to find potential elements of comparison between ancient oratoria popularis and modern populist oratory. I will consider case studies drawn from Gracchan speech style and from the oratory of Donald Trump.

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Published

2019-12-14

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Vol. 39 No. 4 (2019): Special Issue: Rhetoric and Language: Emotions and Style in Argumentative Discourse

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