"The Power of the Voice": Five Steps to More Vocal Awareness. Keynote speech for the "Lecturers' Day" of the Federal Ministry of Finance (Vienna). The audience: internal trainers and lecturers from the Ministry of Finance and the Austrian tax offices.
How can I avoid all these "uhs" and "ums"?! Does this question sound familiar to your ears? Are you also one of those pitiful creatures who can hardly say two sentences in public without making those annoying primal sounds in between? Bergé - fotolia.com "discourse particles" is what linguistics calls these filler sounds, which [...]
Pretty ambiguous, this question, isn't it? I almost joined in the praise of rhetoric - out of the very first reflex - to this question of a forum participant on LinkedIn without thinking. But then a second voice spoke up in me. As much as the rhetorical means of expression such as our language, voice and [...]
Once again, it's election campaigning. Politicians smile from all German billboards, promises, replies and assurances can be heard from all TV channels. Speeches are made on all podiums. The Kamers zoom in even closer, the microphones lurk everywhere. But what does it sound like when political leaders do their persuasive work? Are the leaders of the professional group that is so often assumed to be [...]
