Explore books related to crafting a speech and delivering with dynamism
Trivium, Wooden Books
This book is a part of a four series of nonfiction novels(Quadrivium, Sciencia, Designa, and trivium). Liberal arts based books that talks about grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Not really meant to gain ideas, but helps for people to understand the fundamentals of spoken language. If you do decide to pick up this book, skip over the poetry section, it doesn't provide much unless you are actually writing a poem.
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature, Steven Pinker
This book is for people who are proficient readers and are really looking into how language connects to cognition, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. It is not a book for your typical audience, it is just a mere collection of 13 essays each outlining broad topics. It can be dry and tedious but if you are a linguistic enthusiast this could be a book of your liking.
Thank You for Arguing, Jay Heinrichs
Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action. Whether you're an inveterate lover of language books or just want to win a lot more anger-free arguments on the page, at the podium, or over a beer, Thank You for Arguing is for you. Written by one of today's most popular online language mavens, it's warm, witty, erudite, and truly enlightening. It not only teaches you how to recognize a paralipsis and a chiasmus when you hear them but also how to wield such handy and persuasive weapons the next time you really, really want to get your own way. Imagine what you can do with the knowledge of this book applied to your oratory skills?
The Art of Deception, Nicholas Capaldi & Miles Smit
The title is what it is, while you may not be trying to be a deceptive person. Winning people over to your side is a key component to speaking. The idea of this book is to learn how win argument, pinpoint a fallacy, persuade skeptics, see through a deception, and defend a case. Gaining ideas from this book to speak on is quite difficult, but great at creating a foundation for how to present yourself before an audience.
The Charisma Myth, Olivia Cabane
Charisma is widely assumed to be a trait only a select few people can have (Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Downey JR, Oprah, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and much more). But this professor from UC Berkeley has lectured at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Yale, the marine corps war college, the United Nations, as well as the youngest person to ever to be foreign trade advisor for the French Government. Has spent her life working on the concept of charisma, which she has boiled down in this book for the world to see. Want to be likable, more convincing, influential, and inspiring before an audience or people? this is the book for you.
