What is the difference between public speaking and oration?

Public speaking is a specific form of oration that involves structured, deliberate communication to a group of people, whereas oration is a broader term for any address delivered to an audience.

Who are some notable public speakers mentioned in the source material?

Notable public speakers include Nneka Abulokwe, a British Nigerian tech entrepreneur, and Ifeoma Aggrey-Fynn, a Ghanaian-Nigerian media personality.

What are the subcategories of public speaking?

Subcategories include public lectures, motivational speaking, and sermons, each serving distinct purposes within different contexts.

What are some historical examples of public speaking?

Historical examples include the Proclamation of the Republic in Germany and the We choose to go to the Moon speech by John F. Kennedy.

How is public speaking classified?

Public speaking is classified as an activity, a subclass of oration, and an instance of academic discipline and process.

public speaking

process and act of speaking or giving a lecture to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain a listening audience

Class type of: oral media, activity Q18342738

Facts

7 properties

Instance of: academic discipline, process^[4]
Subclass of: oral media, activity
Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Basque Literature Terms Dictionary^[7]^[8]
Has part(s): oration^[5]
Practiced by: orator, public speaking coach^[10]^[11]
Product or material produced: oration^[6]
Studied by: oratory^[9]

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 28

Library of Congress authority ID: sh85108814
OpenAlex ID: C522180918
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Rajagopal speaking to 25,000 people, Janadesh 2007, India.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID: 300260080
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/8211
Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID: 2746
BBC Things ID: 6a9cc209-5280-4ee9-841d-9765cf37cc33
ESCO skill ID: 0c50c0cb-00d7-42a6-83e5-242fbbd8b813
FactGrid item ID: Creysse
Freebase ID: /m/068k4
Google Knowledge Graph ID: /g/125_jqndp
JSTOR topic ID (archived): public-speaking

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KBpedia ID: PublicSpeaking
Library of Congress Classification: PN4001-PN4355
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 522180918
NL CR AUT ID: ph116573
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007548555405171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX529423
New York Times topic ID: subject/public-speaking
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 1191396
Quora topic ID: Public-Speaking
SVKKL authority ID: 0200892-verejne-vystupovani
Topic's main category: Category:Public speaking
Treccani ID: oratoria
U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10641237
UK Parliament thesaurus ID: 92687
UNESCO Thesaurus ID: concept2992
Yale LUX ID: concept/a2ec3fbc-4e56-497f-bed8-c99ca5dc2823

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🔗 Connections

← Field of work 6

Ibn Furak, Ifeoma Aggrey-Fynn, Nneka Abulokwe, Samuel Bosch, Scott Duffy, Stéphanie Lehuger

Examples 4

sermon, We choose to go to the Moon, Address of the 221, Allahabad Address

Subtypes 3

Proclamation of the republic in Germany, public lecture, motivational speaking

Has these parts 2

oration, eloquence

Instance of 2

academic discipline, process

FactGrid item ID 1

Creysse

Has part(s) 1

oration

Practiced by 1

orator

Product or material produced 1

oration

Subclass of 1

activity

Topic's main category 1

Category:Public speaking

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Public speaking

← Field of this occupation 1

orator

← Has use 1

village hall

← Interested in 1

Moet Abebe

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Summary

public speaking is an academic discipline^[1]. It is a type of oral media^[2] and activity^[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[4] ↑ public speaking — instance of (P31): process. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ public speaking — subclass of (P279): oral media. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ public speaking — subclass of (P279): activity. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ public speaking — has part(s) (P527): oration. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ public speaking — product or material produced (P1056): oration. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ public speaking — described by source (P1343): New Encyclopedic Dictionary. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ public speaking — described by source (P1343): Basque Literature Terms Dictionary. euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved 2026-01-20. euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ public speaking — studied by (P2579): oratory. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ public speaking — practiced by (P3095): orator. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ public speaking — practiced by (P3095): public speaking coach. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ public speaking is an instance of academic discipline (Q11862829) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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