COM 135 Ch 1
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- Empowerment
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- The ability to speak with competence and confidence
- 3 Characteristics for Public Speaking that make it different from Conversation
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- More likely to be planned
- Typically involves more formal language and nonverbal communication
- The roles of speaker and listener are more clearly defined
- 3 Characteristics for Conversation that make it different from Public Speaking
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- More likely to be spontaneous
- Typically involves more casual language and nonverbal communication
- The roles of the speaker and listener are fluid and less clearly delineated
- 2 Similarities between Public Speaking and Conversation
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- Both public speaking and conversation involve vocalized thoughts; words are spoken and nonverbal behavior are expressed.
- Both public speaking and conversation involve adapting messags to listeners.
- Source
- the public speaker
- encode
- to translate ideas and images into verbal or nonverbal symbols
- code
- a verbal or nonverbal symbol for an idea or image
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message
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content of a speech and the mode of its delivery
- decode
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to translate verbal or nonverbal symbols into ideas and images
- channel
- the visual and auditory means by which a message is transmitted from sender to receiver
- Receiver
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a listener or an audience member
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external noise
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physical sounds that interfere with communication
- internal noise
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physiological or psychological interference with communication
- feedback
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verbal and nonverbal responses provided by an audience to a speaker
- context
- the environment or situation in which a speech occurs
- rhetori
- the use of words and symbols to achieve a goal
- declamation
- the delivery of an already famous speech
- elocution
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the expression of emotion through posture, movement, gestures, facial expression, and voice