Pronuntiatio was the discipline of delivering speeches in Western classical rhetoric. It's the one of five canons of classical rhetoric (the others being inventio, dispositio, elocutio, and memoria) that concern the crafting and delivery of speeches. As with memoria, the canon that dealt with the memorization of speeches, pronuntiatio wasn't extensively written about in Classical texts on rhetoric. Its importance declined even more, once the written word became the focus of rhetoric, although a… (More on Pronuntiatio)