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Battle exhortation; the rhetoric of combat leadership.


9781570037351

Battle exhortation; the rhetoric of combat leadership.

Yellin, Keith.

U. of South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures


Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15.
 Press

2008

191 pages

$34.95

Hardcover

Studies in rhetoric/communication

UB210

A scholar of speech communication, a former Marine captain, and now a corporate communicator in Texas, Yellin explores theoretical and practical aspects of battle speech, citing examples throughout Western history, some fictional. Among these are Mantinea in 418 BCE BCE
abbr.
1. Bachelor of Chemical Engineering

2. Bachelor of Civil Engineering



BCE

Abbreviation for before the Common Era.
 as the defining exemplar ex·em·plar  
n.
1. One that is worthy of imitation; a model. See Synonyms at ideal.

2. One that is typical or representative; an example.

3. An ideal that serves as a pattern; an archetype.

4.
, fraternal fraternal /fra·ter·nal/ (frah-ter´n'l)
1. of or pertaining to brothers.

2. of twins; derived from two oocytes.


fra·ter·nal
adj.
1. Of or relating to brothers.
 standing in Plutarch's Spartan mother and Shakespeare's Henry V, George Washington versus Danial Morgan, Eisenhower on D-Day, and Schwartzkopf and Franks.

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