Comm 225 midterm
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- Speaker
- Person who stimulates public dialogue by delivering an oral message.
- Message
- Information conveyed by the speaker to the audience
- Encoding
- Translating ideas and feelings into words, sounds, and gestures
- Decoding
- Translating words sounds and gestures into ideas and feelings in an attempt to understand the message
- Audience
- Complex and varied group of people the speaker addresses
- Channel
- Means by which the message is conveyed
- Noise
- Anything that interferes with understanding the message being communicated
- Communication Apprehension
- Level of fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or persons
- Public Speaking Anxiety
- Anxiety we feel when we learn we have to give a speech or take a public speaking course
- Public Dialogue
- Ethical and civil exchange of ideas and opinions among communities about topics that affect the public
- Audience Analysis
- Analyzing your audience and utilizing things that would appeal to them specifically
- Ethnocentrism
- Belief that our own cultural perspectives norms and ways of organizing society are superior to others
- Examples
- Specific instance used to illustrate a concept experience issue or problem
- Narrative
- Story that recounts or foretells real or hypothetical events
- Statistics
- Numerical summaries of facts figures and research findings
- Testimony
- Opinions or observations of others
- Definition
- Statement of the exact meaning of a word a phrase
- Inductive Reasoning
- Process of reasoning that uses specific instances or examples to make a claim about a general conclusion
- Deductive Reasoning
- Process of reasoning that uses a familiar and commonly accepted claim to establish the truth of a very specific claim
- Causal Reasoning
- Process of reasoning that supports a claim by establishing a cause and effect relationship
- Analogical Reasoning
- A process of reasoning by way of comparison and similarity that implies that because two things resemble each other in one respect they also share similarities in another respect
- Reasoning by sign
- Process of reasoning that assumes something exists or will happen based on something else that exists or has happened
- Inflection
- Manipulation of pitch to create certain meanings or moods
- Proxemics
- Use of space during communication
- Monroes motivated sequence
- Step by step process used to persuade audiences by gaining attention demonstrating a need satisfying that need visualizing beneficial results and calling for action
- Ad hominem fallacy
- Argument in which a speaker attacks a person rather than their arguments
- Bandwagon fallacy
- Everyone else is doing it!
- either or fallacy
- Argument in which a speaker claims our options are either A or B when actually more than two options exist
- Red herring fallacy
- Argument that introduces irrelevant information as a way of distracting the audience from the real issue
- Slippery Slope fallacy
- Argument in which a speaker claims that taking a first step in one direction will lead to inevitable and undesirable further steps
- Ethos
- An appeal to the authority or honesty of the speaker. It is how well the speaker convinces the audience that he or she is qualified to speak on the particular subject
- Pathos
- An appeal to the audiences emotions
- Logos
- ormally used to describe facts and figures that support the speakers topic
- Mythos
- Greek word meaning "story, legend, plot"