Battle Exhortation

Released on by Keith Yellin
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  • Battle Exhortation Book Detail

  • Author : Keith Yellin
  • Release Date : 2013-06-10
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 282
  • ISBN 13 : 1611173566
  • File Size : 51,51 MB
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Battle Exhortation by Keith Yellin PDF Summary

Book Description: A commanding study of the motivational speech of military leaders across the centuries In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. Battle Exhortation focuses on one of the most time-honored forms of motivational communication, the encouraging speech of military commanders, to offer a pragmatic and scholarly evaluation of how persuasion contributes to combat leadership and military morale. In illustrating his subject's conventions, Yellin draws from the Bible, classical Greece and Rome, Spanish conquistadors, and American military forces. Yellin is also interested in how audiences are socialized to recognize and anticipate this type of communication that precedes difficult team efforts. To account for this dimension he probes examples as diverse as Shakespeare's Henry V, George C. Scott's portrayal of General George S. Patton, and team sports.

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