Public speaking

Public speaking is speaking to a group of people in an organized way: to give information, influence or persuade, or to entertain the listeners.

In public speaking there are five important questions, which are often expressed as "who is saying what to whom, using which medium, with what effects?"

The Ancient Greeks called public speaking rhetoric; the Romans called it oratory. Until the late 20th century it was also called forensic speaking, or forensics. Propaganda is an another name for speech for or against some point of view. In George Orwell's words propaganda is a reflection of prejudices and beliefs that colors people's [or societies] aesthetic judgements.^[1] Often they are simply fallacies or conjectures.

1. ↑ Dag, O. "George Orwell: The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda". orwell.ru.