"Speaking is not about information transmission. Speaking is to make people do something." I couldn't have put it more succinctly myself. Motivation is speech

"Speaking is not about information transmission. Speaking is to make people do something." I couldn't have put it more succinctly myself. Motivation is speech's primary function. Getting you to vote, or buy something, or work harder, or learn something. Everyone who is trying to get a group of people to do something is using speeches at some point.