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Battle Exhortation

Keith Yellin

2013,2008,2011

Overview

In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. Battle Exhortation focuses on one of the most time-honored forms of motivational communication, the encouraging speech of military commanders, to offer a pragmatic and scholarly evaluation of how persuasion contributes to combat leadership and military morale. In illustrating his subject's conventions, Yellin draws from the Bible, classical Greece and Rome, Spanish conquistadors, and American military forces. Yellin is also interested in how audiences are socialized to recognize and anticipate this type of communication that precedes difficult team efforts. To account for this dimension he probes examples as diverse as Shakespeare's Henry V, George C. Scott's portrayal of General George S. Patton, and team sports.

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Subject: Battle cry / Battle of Peleliu / Battle-cries / Close Combat (series) / Combat / Combat -- Psychological aspects -- History / Combatant / Command of troops / Council of war / Counterattack / Declaration of war / Duel / Encirclement / Exhortation (Rhetoric) / Force protection / Handbooks, manuals, etc / HISTORY / HISTORY / Military / General / Language & Literature / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric / Law of war / Leadership / Military history / Modern warfare / Morale / On War / Oratory / Psychological aspects / Public Speaking / Quotations, maxims, etc / Rebel yell / Rhetoric / Speeches, addresses, etc / The Fog of War / War crime / War effort / War song / Warfare
• ISBN: 1570037353, 9781570037351, 1611173566, 9781611173567, 1611170540, 9781611170542