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"delivery"
Definition: One of the five traditional parts or canons of rhetoric, concerned with control of voice and gestures.
Etymology:
Friom the Latin, "free"
Examples and Observations:
- "[Aristotle] compares rhetorical delivery to theatrical performance and emphasizes the effect of delivery on different audiences; the effectiveness and appropriateness of delivery make a speech successful or not."
(Kathleen E. Welch, "Delivery," in Enclopedia of Rhetoric, 2001)
- "Delivery has been much studied in our own time, but not by students of rhetoric. The behavioral biologists and psychologists call it 'nonverbal communication' and have added immeasurably to our knowledge of this kind of human expressivity."
(Richard Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, 2nd ed., 1991)
 Pronunciation: di-LIV-i-ree |
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