ELOCUTION
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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ELOCUTION. The study and practice of oral delivery, including control of breath,
VOICE,
PRONUNCIATION, stance, and gesture (
Has he taken elocution lessons?); the way in which someone speaks or reads aloud, especially in public (
flawless elocution). An early meaning of the term was literary
STYLE as distinct from content, and relates to the Latin meaning of
elocutio (‘speaking out’), one of the canons or departments of
RHETORIC. Elocution as training in how to speak ‘properly’ (
as in taking elocution lessons) was a feature of
EDUCATION, particularly for girls, in the 18–19c.
SHAW, who gave an extended dramatic treatment to elocution in
Pygmalion (1912), added to his will in 1913 a clause giving some of the residue of his estate to ‘The substitution of a scientific training in
PHONETICS for the makeshifts of so-called elocution lessons by actors and others which have hitherto prevailed in the teaching of oratory’. See
ORTHOEPY,
PERIOD,
PROSE.
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