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Smooth Talkers
The Linguistic Performance of Auctioneers and Sportscasters
Series: Everyday Communication Series
This book examines the contexts in which sportscasters and auctioneers speak and the characteristic techniques they employ in order to speak fluently. These speakers were selected because they have the capacity to show what happens to speech when speakers are under memory and processing pressure...
Published September 30th 1995 by Routledge