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Steven Beebe. C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication
About the author
About the book
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Contents
Foreword
Note
Preface
Notes
Acknowledgements
A Popular Communicator
A Professional Communicator
A Professor of Communication
HI TEA: A Preview of Lewis’s Communication Lessons
Effective Communicators Are Holistic
Effective Communicators Are Intentional
Effective Communicators Are Transpositional
Effective Communicators Are Evocative
Effective Communicators Are Audience Centered
Notes
His Family: Flora, Albert, and Warnie
The Education of a Master Communicator
Boarding Schools
Arthur Greeves: First Friend and Intimate Confidant
The Great Knock
Oxford and the Dreaming Spires
The Great War
Mrs. Moore and Lewis’s Audience
J. R. R. Tolkien: Oxford Friend and Colleague
A Most Reluctant Conversion
Surprised by Marriage: Finding Joy and Observing Grief
A Well-Read Mind Awake
Notes
Longing: The Quest to Find Home
The Tao: Universal Truth
Christianity: Lewis’s Primary Sense-Making Lens
Language: Metaphorical Shaper of Thought and Meaning
Summary: Lewis’s Big Ideas
Longing
The Tao
Christianity
Language
Notes
Principle One: Effective Communicators Are Holistic
One Style: Communicating for Both the Eye and the Ear
Two Lewises: The Integration of Reason and Imagination
Three Methods: The Integration of Rhetoric, Dialectic, and the Poetic
Rhetoric
Dialectic
Poetic
Summary: The “H” of HI TEA: The Principle of Being Holistic
Notes
Principle Two: Effective Communicators Are Intentional
The Meaning of Meaning
Evidential Meaning
Psychological Meaning
Empirical (Symbolic) Meaning
Master of Invention
Clarity
Style
Summary: The “I” of “HI TEA”: The Principle of Being Intentional
Notes
Principle Three: Effective Communicators Are Transpositional
Translation: A Prelude to Transposition
Transposition: Communicating from Higher to Lower, Richer to Poorer
Visual Metaphor: The Technique of Transposition
Summary: The “T” of “HI TEA”: The Principle of Transposition
Notes
Principle Four: Effective Communicators Evoke Emotions
Evoke by Selecting the Right Word
Evoke by Using Comparison
Evoke by Placing Us in the Middle of Things
Evoke by Telling Stories
Evoke by Using Myth
Summary: The “E” of “HI TEA”: The Principle of Evoking Emotions
Notes
Principle Five: Effective Communicators Are Audience Centered
Misanalysing His Audience: Learning from Communication Failures
Editing for the Audience
Relating to the Audience
Speaking to an Audience
Being a Good Audience Member
Summary: The “A” of “HI TEA”: The Principle of Being Audience Centered
Notes
How to Be Holistic
Communicate for the Eye and the Ear
Use Interesting and Varied Supporting Material
Communicate to the Whole Mind
How to Be Intentional
Have Something to Say
Develop a Clear Communication Objective
Use Language Precisely
How to Be Transpositional
Use Comparisons Skillfully
Communicate for the “Mind’s Eye”
Craft Effective Visual Metaphors
How to Be Evocative
Tell Stories
Get Messages Out of People
Master Nonverbal Communication Skills
Maximize Eye Contact
Use Appropriate Gestures and Movement
Maintain Effective Posture
Use Appropriate Facial Expressions
How to Be an Audience-Centered Communicator
Enhance Your Credibility
Select the Appropriate Communication Channel
Analyze and Adapt to Your Audience
For Receptive Audiences,
For Neutral or Apathetic Audiences,
For an Unreceptive Audience,
Remember HI TEA
Be a Holistic Communicator
Be an Intentional Communicator
Be a Transpositional Communicator
Be an Evocative Communicator
Be an Audience-Centered Communicator
Notes
Index
