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The different types of figures of repetition and their functions are introduced in this chapter, via the example of an extract from Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.
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Many texts exist for this speech. This book features extracts transcribed by the author, from the video retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47Y6VHc3Ms.
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Atkinson, M. (1984). Public Speaking and Audience Responses. In M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (Eds.), Structures of Social Action (pp. 370–409). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cockroft, R., & Cockroft, S. (2005). Persuading People: An Introduction to Rhetoric. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Rossette-Crake, F. (2019). Figures of Repetition: Functions. In: Public Speaking and the New Oratory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22086-0_15
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