Public Speaking
Invitational Speaking uses
Equality - all perspectives valid and worth exploration Value - all values valued and speaker generally tries to understand views Self-determination - identifies that people know their own lives best
Standpoint
Perspective from which a person views and evaluates society
Antithesis
Placement of words and phrases in contrast or opposition to one another. It was the best of times it was the worst of times
Connotative definition
Subjective meaning of a word based on personal experience
Deductive reasoning
generalizations and conclusions lead to example
Logical fallacies
Ad hominem Bandwagon Either/or False cause Red herring Hasty Generalization Slippery Slope
Noise
Anything that interferes with understanding the message being communicated
Visual Aids
Anything visual that is used to provide something the audience can see and relate to.
Trait Anxiety
Apprehension about communicating with others in any situation
Parallelsim
Arrangement of related words so they have related or identical structures
Monroe's Motivated Sequence
Attention grabber Lay Groundwork Satisfy need Visualization of impact Call to action
Speaker Credibility
Competence Character
Audience
Complex and varied group of people the speaker addresses
3 reasons to speak
Deciding to speak Asked to Speak Required to speak
Speaker
Delivers a message while considering the needs and characteristics of the audience They are the encoder
Context
Environment or situation in which a speech occurs
Map of reasoning
Grounds ->(Backing -> Warrant) -> Claim
Problem/solution
Identifies the problem and then shows your solution
4 kinds of speeches
Impromptu Manuscript Extemporaneous Memorized
Patterns of reasoning
Inductive Deductive Causal Analogical Reasoning by sign
Slang
Informal nonstandard vocab, usually made of arbitrarily changed words
Message
Information conveyed by the speaker to the audience and these can be verbal or nonverbal This will be decoded into ideas and thoughts
Types of Credibility
Initial Derived Terminal
Red Herring fallacy
Introduction of irrelevant information to distract from real issues
Communication Apprehension
Level of fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person(s)
Reasoning by sign
Like "dark clouds" are a sign of a storm rolling in
Colloquialism
Local or regional informal dialect or expression
Channel
Means by which the message is conveyed
Statistics
Numerical summaries of facts, figures, and research findings
Spatial organizational pattern
Organized by location of thoughts and events
Causal organizational pattern
Organized by showing either the cause or the effect and then going to the other
Chronological organizational pattern
Organized by time of events
Value
Person's idea of what is good, worthy, or important
Belief
Person's ideas of what is real, not real, true, or not true
Types of Informative Speaking
Process Events Places/people Objects Concepts
Types of Persuasive Speaking
Question of; fact, value, or policy
Master Statuses
Significant positions occupied by a person within society that affect that person's identity in almost all social situations (your legal Information)
Signpost
Simple word or phrase identifying where you are in the speech or highlights main ideas
Ethical Public Speaking
Speaker who considers the moral impact of his or her ideas and arguments on others when involved in the public dialogue
Introduction
Start your speech by gaining credibility and you audience's attention. Then state the importance of your topic and talk about what is to come
Alliteration
Starting words with the same letter to create rhythm
Narrative
Story that recounts or foretells real or hypothetical examples/events
Connections in the semantic triangle of meaning
Symbol is what is being spoken by speaker, referent is the idea that the symbol represents, and the thought or reference is a memory/idea shared with audience members
Jargon
Technical language used by a special group or for a special activity
Public Speaking Model
This model, but contains noise 7 Things
Semantic Triangle of meaning
Thought Symbol Referent
Feedback
Verbal and nonverbal signals an audience gives a speaker
Character speaker credibility
Who the speaker is as a person
Euphemism
Word or phrase that substitutes an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
Connectives
Words or phrases used to link ideas in a speech Transition, internal preview, internal summary, signpost
Conclusion
You are ending you speech so reinforce the thesis by summing up main points and refer back to the intro if you proposed a question or you want to make your point clear. End with a closer
Slippery Slope fallacy
a step in a certain direction will lead to undesirable further steps in that direction
Hasty generalization fallacy
argument based on too few cases to support the conclusion
Ad hominem fallacy
attacks a person not their argument
Causal reasoning
because this then this
Ethnocentrism
belief that our own cultural perspectives, norms, and ways of organizing society are superior to others
Stereotype
broad generalization about an entire group based on limited knowledge or exposure to only certain members of that group
Group Communications
communication among members of a team collective about goals, strategies, and conflict
Interpersonal communication
communication with other people that ranges from the high personal to the highly impersonal
Intrapersonal communication
communication with ourselves via the dialogue goes on in our heads
Listenable speech
considerate and delivered in an oral
Culture and Speaking Style
derived from nationality, race, ethnicity, religion making a style of communication
Considerate speech
eases the audience's burden of processing information
Public dialogue
ethical, fair, and honest. Open discussion
Bandwagon fallacy
everyone is doing it, it must be true
Inductive reasoning
examples lead to a generalization and conclusion
State or situational anxiety
feeling anxiety in a certain circumstance
Specific purpose
focused statement that identifies exactly what a speaker wants to accomplish with a speech
Attitude
general positive or negative feeling a person has about something
Idiom
is a phrase that is more than the sum of its parts, or in other words, has more of a meaning than the individual words used in the phrase.
Demographic audience analysis
knowing exactly what the audience is made of
what is mass communication
media
False Cause fallacy
mistakes correlational relationship for a causal relationship
Denotative definition
objective meaning of a word or phrase you find in a dictionary
Listener Interference
occurs during listening when anything stops one from receiving a message (decoding speech) Like thinking that you aren't interested
Testimony (and types)
opinions or observations made by others Expert, peer, personal
Analogical reasoning
resemblance of one quality between two things leads to resemblance in another quality
Pneumonic Device
something vocal used to remember something
Competence speaker credibility
speaker's knowledge of the subject
General purpose
speeches broad goal; to inform, invite, persuade, introduce, commemorate, or accept
Topical
splits up the points you are going to make into subtopics which will then lead up to the final claim
Thesis
statement summarizes in a single declarative sentence the main ideas, assumptions, or arguments you want to express in your speech
Problems with non-inclusive language
too formal, casual, or non-inclusive not using gender inclusive language or culturally inclusive language
Articulation vs. Pronunciation
way words flow and are presented vs. saying a single word or phrase correctly
Need, Plan, Practicality idea for speeking
what is the problem, how do we solve it, what is the best solution, likelihood of your plan being adopted, and pros and cons
Either/or fallacy
you give two options when more exist