Interesting Concept from Chapter One

After reading chapter one the concept from the modern period is from the elocutionists. There study focused on the canon of delivery (Trenholm, p. 11). The vocal characteristics and gestures that appear during emotion states were exaggerated. If you didn't check out the figure on pg. 12 titled An Elocutionary Approach to the Use of "Gestures, you should. You can see the dramatization of gestures that are suppose to show an emotion in a natural state which it does not. These nonverbal behaviors were so unrealistic that it gave oral communications a bad name (Trenholm, p. 11). I can see how these writings and diagrams were disregarded, I found myself laughing as I was reading them. The elocutionists approach was suppose to (Trenholm, p. 10) "design elaborate systems of instruction to improve speakers' verbal and nonverbal presentations" but they went a little to far.