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speech final01
fundamentals of speech terms
Question | Answer |
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the person who originates the message | source |
individual or group that hears and listens to the message sent by the source | receiver |
the facial expression seen, the words heard, the visual aids illustrated, and the ideas or meanings conveyed simultaneously between source and receiver | message |
words the souce chose for the speech | verbal messages |
movements, gestures, facial expression, and vocal variations that can reinforce or contradict the words | nonverbal messages |
the means of distributing your words, whether by coaxial cable, fiber optics, microwave, radio, air | channel |
verbal and non vebrbal responses by the audience | feedback |
time, place, and occasion in which the message sending and receiving occurs | situation |
interference of obstacles to communication | noise |
the dynamic interrelationship of course, receiever, message, channel, feedback, sitaution, and noise | process of communication |
transaction in which speaker and listener simultaneously send, receieve, and intepret messages | communication |
an offense punishable by no poinyd, a low grade, suspension, or dismissal from college, using a speech, outline, or manuscript from any source | plagairism |
the audiences perception of your effectiveness as a communicator | source credibility |
pointing out what features you share with your audience | common ground |
degree to which the audience percieves the presenter as honest and honorable | trustworthiness |
thorough familiarity with your topic | competence |
the energy you expend in delivering your message | dynamism |
interpreting sounds as a message | listening |
an individuals level of fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticpated communication with another person or persons | communication apprehension |
describes essential skills associated with public dialogue and communication | five canons of rhetoric |
art of finding information | invention |
pictures or diagrams that allow you to visualize main and subordinate ideas related to a more general topic | concept maps |
arrangement and structure of a presentation | disposition |
the use and ornamentation of a language | style |
createive and artful use of language | ornamentation |
speakers must have a strong mental awareness of the messages they intend to present | memory |
mode of delivery that allows some preparation but does not require the presenter to script out of memorize the presentation | extemporaneous delivery |
the verbal and nonvebral techniques used to present th message | delivery |
one that does not allow for substantial planning and practice before the presentation is given | impromptu presentation |
teaches audience members how soemthing works or how to perform some task | demonstration presentation |
try to think of as many topics as you can in a limited time | brainstorming |
begin with categores that prompt you to think of topics | categorical brainstorming |
consider features of your life such as experiences, attitudes, values, beliefs, interests, and skills | personal inventory |
items that you find in the news, on the media, and in the minds of people in your audience | current topics |
seeks to increase the audiences level of understanding or knowledge about a topic | speech to inform |
seeks to influence, reinforce, or modify the audience members feelings, attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors | speech to persuade |
presentation that highlights a special even | special occasion speech |
summary of the speech | thesis statement |
discovering as much as possible about an audience for the purpose of improving communication with them | audience analysis |
popular opinions of the time about issues, styles, topics, teends, and social mores, the customary set of understanding of what is true or right | conventional wisdom |
include gender composition, age, ethnicitiy, economic status, occupation and education | demographics |
people who are united through "language, historical origins, nation state, or cultural systems" | ethnicity |
groups that are similar to the large culture but are disinguished by background, beliefes, and behaviors | co-cultures |
the common concept of reality shared by a particular group of people | worldview |
watching and listening | observation |
inquiries about your audiecne directed at and audience member | interviews |
surveys of audience opinions | questionnaires |
questions that require more than a yes or no answer | open-ended questions |
require a yes or no answer | closed-ended questions |
ask to what extent a respondent agrees or disagrees with a statement | degree questions |
your own life as a source of information | personal experience |
data which proof may be based | evidence |
a librarian specifically trained to help find sources of information | reference librarian |
database containing information about books, journals, and other resources in the library | electronic catalog |
sources of information that are publishd at regular intervals | periodicals |
website on the internet that is specifically designed to help you search for information | search engine |
complete citations that appear in the references or works cited section of your speech outline | bibliographical reference |
brief notations of which biblographical reference contains the details you are using in your speech | internal reference |
tells listeners who the source is, how recent the info is, and the sources qualifications | oral citation |
information you can use to substantiate your arguments and clarify your positions | supporting material |
a study in which a limited number of questions are answered by a sample of the population to discover opinions on issues | surveys |
specific instances used to illustrate your point | examples |
statements made by an ordinary person that substantiate or support what you say | lay testimony |
statements made by someone who has special knowledge about an issue or an idea | expert testimony |
statements made by a public figure who is known to the audience | celebrity testimony |
numbers such as totals, differences, percentages averages that summarize data or provice scientific evidence of relationhips between two or more things | statistics |
comparison of things in some respects, especially in position or function that are otherwise dissimilar | analogy |
determinations of meaning through description , simplificayion, examples, analysis, comparison, explaination or illustration | definitions |
intentional or unintentional use of information fro one ore more sources without fully divulging how much information is directly quoted | incrmental plagarism |
a source advocation one position will present an argument from the opposide viewpoint and then go on the refute that argument | two-sided argument |
you repeat words and phrases and use the same parts of speech for each item | parallel construction |
states the order of events as they actually occur | time-sequence patterm |
demonstrartes how items are related in space | spatial relations patterm |
describes or explains the causes and consequences | cause-effect patterns |
highly versatile organizatrional patterm, simply divides a topic into inter related parts | topic sequence patterns |
depicting an issue or situation | problem-solution pattern |
includes five specific components: attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action | monroe's motivated sequence |
statements or words that bridge previous parts of the presentation to the next part | transition |
reveal where the speaker is going | signposts |
informs listeners of your next point or points and are more detailed than transitions | internal previews |
remind listeners of your last point or points and are more detailed then transitions | internal reviews |
allows you to indicate which material is more important and which is less important through ndentation and symbols | principle of subordination |
states that if a point is to be divided, it must have at least two subpoints | principle of division |
states that main points, sub points and sub-subpoints must use the same grammmatical and syntactical forms | principle of parallelism |
final outline in complete sentence form | formal sentence outline |
list of courses consulted and the sourses actually used in the presentation | bibiography |
brief outline with cue words that you can use during the delivery of your presentation | word outline |
you make your audience pctive participants in your presentation | audience participation |
key outline with cue words that you can use during the delivery of your presentation | key word outline |
the beginning of your presentation | introduction |
tells the audience how you are going to cover the topic | forecasting |
warns the audience that you are about to stop | brake light function |
remind the audience of the thesis of your message | instant replay function |
state the response you seek from the audience | action ending function |
one in which a presenter has committed a presentation to memory | memorized mode |
when a presenter writes out the complete presentastion in advance and then uses that amnuscript to deliver the speech but without memorizing | manuscript mode |
a brief silence for effect | pause |
way of delaying with sound | vocalized pause |
the speed of delivery | rate |
how long something lasts | duration |
tempo of the speech | rhythm |
the reprtition of the intitial sounds of words | alliteration |
highness or lowness of a speakers voice, its upward and downward inflection the melody produced by the voice | pitch |
the relative loudness or softness of your voice | volume |
adjusting your volume appropriately for the subject, the audience, and the situation | projection |
the pronunciation and articulation of words | enunciation |
the production of the sounds of the word | pronunciation |
the physiological process of creating the sounds | articulation |
mistaking one word for another | malapropisms |
the smoothness of delivery, the flow od words, and the absence of vocalized pauses | fluency |
they represent the concrete and objective reality of objects and things as well as abstract ideas | symbolic |
our language determines to some extent how we think about and view the world | sapir-whorf hypothesis |
simplification standing for a person or thing | abstraction |
people who study words and meaning | semanticists |
the degree to which words become separated from concrete or senes reality | level of abstraction |
tend to be specific, narrow, particular, and based on what you can sense | concrete words |
direct, explicit meaning or reference of a word | denotative meaning |
idea suggested by a word other than its explicit meaning | connatative meaning |
shows how much one thing is like another | comparison |
shwos how unlike one thing is from another | contrast |
uses words to reveal facts | literal language |
compares one concept to another analogous but different concept | figurative language |
language that does not leave out groups of people | inclusive language |
the misjudging of an individual by asusming that he or she has the characteristics of some group-that every single individual is just exactly liek the others | stereotype |
words that mean more or less the same thing | synonyms |
words that are opposite in meaning | antonyms |
origin of a word | etymology |
kind of overstatement or use of a word or words that axaggerates the actual situation | hyperbole |
describiging a complex issue as a simple one | oversimplification |
your point of view or perception | perspective |
resources other than the speaker that stimulate listeners and help them comprehend and remember the presenters message | sensory aids |
any observable resoucres used to enhance, explain, aor suppplement the presenters message | visual aids |
the use of words accompanied by other sensory stimuli | dual coding |
digital or electronic sensory resources that combine text graphics viideo and sound into one package | media materials |
relies primarily on words and phrases to show the audience members information | text slide |
use text and or numbers to efficiently summrize compare annd contrast information | tables |
used to visually display quantiative or statistical information | charts |
illustrate differences between categories of infornmation | bar and column charts |
illustrate trends in quantitative data | line charts |
used to show percentages of a whole | pie charts |
diagrams that represent a hierarchial structuce or process | flowcharts |
scaled representations of an actual object or objects | models |
one that increases an audiences knowledge about a subject or that helps the audience learn more about an issue or idea | informative presentation |
generate desire for information | information hunger |
generalizations to be remembered | main ideas |
details that support the generalizations | subordinate ideas |
an overt indication of understanding | behavioral response |
the ability to percieve and express that which is amusing or comical | humor |
the ability to perceive and express humorously the relationship or similarity between seeminlt inconrguous or disparate things | wit |
a psychological or physical reinforcement to increase an audiences response to information given in a presentation | reward |
revealing the presenter intended meaning of a term especially if the term is technical, scientific, controversial or not commonly used | defining |
evokes the meaning of a person, a place, an object or an experience by telling about its size weight color texture smell or your feelings about it | describing |
reveals how something works, why something occurred, or how something should be evaluated | explaining |
showing the audience an object, a person, or a place, showing the audience how something works, how to do something, or showing the audience why something occurs | demonstrating |