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Chapter 1 Speech
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Public Speaking | A sustained formal presentation by a speaker to an audience. |
| Ethics | Moral principles that a society, group, or individuals that hold that differentiate right from wrong. |
| Plagiarize | Presenting the ideas, words, or created works of another as one's own by failing to credit the source. |
| Cyberplagiarism | presenting material found on the Internet as one's own by failing to credit the source. |
| Communication | The process of creating shared meaning. |
| Participants | Individuals who assume the roles of senders and receivers during an interaction. |
| Senders | Participants who form and transmit messages. |
| Receivers | Participants who interpret messages sent by others. |
| Messages | The verbal utterances, visual images, and nonverbal behaviors used to communicate. |
| Encoding | The process of creating messages. |
| Decoding | The process of interpreting messages. |
| Small group Communication | Interaction that occurs in a group of approximately three to ten people. |
| Public Communication | Communication with more than ten people by one primary sender to multiple receivers. |
| Mass Commnunication | Communication produced and transmitted via mass media to large audiences. |
| Rhetorical Situations | The Intersection of the speaker, audience, and occasion. |
| Exigence | A real or preceived specific need that a speech might help address. |
| Speaker | The originator of the speech. |
| Audience | The specific group of the people to whom the speech is directed. |
| Audience Analysis | The study of the intended audience for your speech. |
| Audience Adaption | The process of tailoring a speech to the needs, interests, and expectations of its listeners. |
| Occasion | The expected purpose of and setting (location) for the speech. |
| Setting | The location where the speech will be given |
| Ethos | Everything you say and do to convey competence and good character. |
| Pathos | Everything you say and do to appeal to logic and sound reasoning. |
| Content | The information and ideas you present. |
| Listener Relevance Links | Statement alerting about how a main point or subpoint is relevant to them. |
| Structure | The framework that organizes the speech content. |
| Macrostructure | The overall organizational framework of your speech content. |
| Transition | Words, phrases, or sentences that bridges two ideas. |
| Microstructure | The specific languages and styles you use within your sentences. |
| Delivery | Communication throught the use of voice and body to convey your message. |
| Feedback | The receivers reactions and responeses that indicate how a message is interpreted. |
| Channels | Both the route traveled by a message and the means of transportation. |
| Mediated Channels | Technology-enhanced auditory and visual channels. |
| Virtual Presence | Simulated presence made possible through the use of digital technology. |
| Interference/noise | Any stimulus that interfers with the process of archieving shared meaning. |
| Communication context | The enviroment in which communication occurs. |
| Intrapersonal Commnunication | Communicating with yourself (self-talk). |
| Interpersonal Communication | Communication between two people who have an indentifiable relationship with each other. |