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This chapter deals with one of the main challenges of public speaking, particularly in the context of the New Oratory: that of performing from a written script but feigning spontaneity. Different production strategies are identified, before discussing the tasks of “listenability” and producing the illusion of spontaneous speech.
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This has made the task of EU Parliament interpreters more difficult: they now have to translate in real time speech that is far more elaborate and closer to written language than to spoken language.
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Rossette-Crake, F. (2019). Elaborate Orality: Speaking from a Script. In: Public Speaking and the New Oratory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22086-0_5
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