The phrase "a speech attributed to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a speech that is said to have been made by a particular person, often when the authenticity or authorship is in question.
Example: "The article discusses a speech attributed to the famous leader, although some historians debate its authenticity."
Alternatives: "a speech credited to" or "a speech ascribed to".
What actually transpired was that a speech attributed to Mr Mandela 13 years ago at a dinner in Cape Town was portrayed as a foreword for an edition of the book released in the United States in 2009".
The cleric said he had gone onto the Internet and discovered to his horror a speech attributed to President Bush in which he boasted of shaving the beards of the faithful in Afghanistan and tearing the burkas off the women, while introducing every manner of moral corruption.
A speech attributed to Matta was read to the court.
The misuse of rhetoric is exemplified by the speech attributed to the orator Lysias, a somewhat contrived plea to favor a non-lover rather than a lover.
Page B3 New York POLICE LEADER CONDEMNS INSULTS AGAINST PARADEGOERS Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly condemned the kind of hateful speech attributed to several officers on a Facebook page dedicated to the unpleasantness of working at the annual West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn.
Updated, 2 38 p.m. | Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly made his first statement on Wednesday about the latest scandal to hit the New York Police Department, condemning the kind of hateful speech attributed to several police officers on a Facebook page dedicated to the unpleasantness of working the annual West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn.
His travels there culminated in the Council of Clermont in November, where, according to the various speeches attributed to him, he gave an impassioned sermon to a large audience of French nobles and clergy, graphically detailing the fantastical atrocities being committed against pilgrims and eastern Christians.
Forensic oratory from the 5th century has scarcely survived at all, but from the 4th century there are more than 60 speeches attributed to Demosthenes alone.
Philip's political settlement is illustrated by a speech wrongly attributed to Demosthenes and by an inscription much restored with the help of the speech.
(I titled a book on this "The First Dissident"). Indeed, Job's demand that his unseen adversary show up at a trial with a written indictment gets an unexpected reaction: in a thunderous theophany, God appears before the startled man with the longest and most beautifully poetic speech attributed directly to him in Scripture.
It's a phrase attributed to her from a speech she gave in 1998.
