Power Of Emotive Speaking
Let there be no doubt that emotive speaking is powerful – it comes from the heart and is directed at the hearts of listeners through both tonality and the use of feeling words. We examine a few examples, some taken from moments in history.
• Girl who Silenced the UN for 6 minutes - Timeless Speech. This video clip is about a 15 year old girl, Severn Suzuki of the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), addressing the UN on the organization’s concern about the erosion of the world’s natural environment.
In clear, crisp and emotive tones she makes an impassioned appeal to the UN to do something about the crisis. She powerfully expressed her feelings with statements like “I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our o-zone. I am afraid to breathe in the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it”. She held her audience spell-bound with her emotionally charged message and left them with a clear call to action. …show more content…
He referred to the sneak Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 Dec 1941 as a “day of infamy”.
Watch his “Day of Infamy speech” at: http://youtu.be/9uCGxk-v-Mc
• No less emotive was when President Reagan spoke to the West Berliners in 1987 at the Brandenburg Gate about the division between East and West Germany by the infamous Berlin Wall. He had the crowds roaring with approval when he exclaimed “Mr Gorbachev, come here to this Gate. Open this gate. Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”. A German newspaper labelled it as a speech that “changed the world”.
Let there be no doubt that emotive speaking is powerful – it comes from the heart and is directed at the hearts of listeners through both tonality and the use of feeling words. We examine a few examples, some taken from moments in history.
• Girl who Silenced the UN for 6 minutes - Timeless Speech. This video clip is about a 15 year old girl, Severn Suzuki of the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), addressing the UN on the organization’s concern about the erosion of the world’s natural environment.
In clear, crisp and emotive tones she makes an impassioned appeal to the UN to do something about the crisis. She powerfully expressed her feelings with statements like “I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our o-zone. I am afraid to breathe in the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it”. She held her audience spell-bound with her emotionally charged message and left them with a clear call to action. …show more content…
He referred to the sneak Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 Dec 1941 as a “day of infamy”.
Watch his “Day of Infamy speech” at: http://youtu.be/9uCGxk-v-Mc
• No less emotive was when President Reagan spoke to the West Berliners in 1987 at the Brandenburg Gate about the division between East and West Germany by the infamous Berlin Wall. He had the crowds roaring with approval when he exclaimed “Mr Gorbachev, come here to this Gate. Open this gate. Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”. A German newspaper labelled it as a speech that “changed the world”.