Showing posts with label applause. Show all posts
Showing posts with label applause. Show all posts

An example of rhetorical virtuosity from rhetoric denier Tony Benn

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Readers from outside the UK have probably never heard of Tony Benn, and quite a few here will be too young to remember just how effective an...

Claptrap 1: The movie

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This is the first in a series of posts to mark this month's 25th anniversary of a television documentary that completely changed my life...
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Obama on Kennedy got more applause than 'normal'

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I mentioned in an earlier post an observation, first reported in my book Our Masters’ Voices , about there being a standard or ‘normal’ b...

Obama: Echoes of Berlin in Cairo

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Speaking in Berlin in 1963, President Kennedy showed how a few words in the local language is a sure fire way of winning approval (in the ...
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Obama’s nomination of Judge Sotomayor received five times more applause than ‘normal’

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Soon after I started studying applause in political speeches, it emerged that there is a ‘normal’ burst of applause that lasts for about eig...

Disputing the meaning of applause

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In an interview broadcast yesterday about a meeting with his constituents in Bracknell, Andrew MacKay made much of the fact that three quart...

Rhetoric wins applause for questioners on BBC Question Time

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It wasn't just some of David Dimbleby's questions that got applauded on last night's Question Time (see previous post). Some of ...
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Applause for Dimbleby's questions on BBC Question Time

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Two very unusual things happen in these two clips from last night's Question Time on BBC1. The first is that that David Dimbleby feels l...

Does Daniel Hannan’s attack on Brown tell us what makes a speech memorable?

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When I first started doing research into political speeches in the early 1980s, I concentrated on sequences that prompted applause – as it s...
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Obama’s inauguration rhetoric won approval for some uncomfortable messages

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A point I made a couple of days ago was that bursts of applause can be used to identify which points in a speech an audience liked best. If ...

Rhetoric and applause in Obama’s inaugural speech as a measure of what the audience liked best

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When I first started studying bursts of applause in political speeches thirty years ago, some people couldn’t see the point; others thought ...
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