Ch 11

Question 1

Audience analysis

Answer 1

Identifying and adapting your remarks to the most pertinent characteristics of your listeners

Question 2

Audience purpose

Answer 2

You have a reason for speaking, and they have a reason for listening ie child birth classes for expecting parents

Question 3

Demographics

Answer 3

Characteristics of your audience that can be categorized i.e. Age, gender, religion, etc. know who you’re speaking to and how to speak to them

Question 4

Attitudes, beliefs, and values

Answer 4

Audience feelings about you, your subject, and your intentions

Question 5

Attitude

Answer 5

How do your listeners feel about your subject?

Question 6

Beliefs

Answer 6

Is your subject believable? (Dental hygiene, do they believe in it or do you need to convince them?)

Question 7

Values

Answer 7

What does your audience value about your topic?

Question 8

The occasion

Answer 8

Time, place, audience expectations

Question 9

Time

Answer 9

Speeches given before yours can set the mood orrrr the time of life you’re in (child, college, parent) financial aid speech applies to college

Question 10

Place

Answer 10

Stuffy room vs out doors, consider your surroundings

Question 11

Audience expectations

Answer 11

Ted talks and college speeches are expected to be very educated, sixth grader not so much

Question 12

Library catalog

Answer 12

Catalog of subjects, authors, and book titles

Question 13

Reference works

Answer 13

Good for basic information, definitions, descriptions, etc. dictionaries and encyclopedias

Question 14

Periodicals

Answer 14

Magazines, journals, newspapers. Good for up to date shit

Question 15

Non print paterials

Answer 15

Audio and visual materials. Good source of high interest up to date shit

Question 16

Data bases

Answer 16

Computerized collections of highly credible info from a wide variety of sources i.e. Lexis nexus

Question 17

Interviewing

Answer 17

Research can help you wow info from expert pov or stimulate your own thinking and may save you hours of research

Question 18

Survey research

Answer 18

The distribution of questionnaires fro ppl to respond to – can give you up to date answers concerning a specific audience

Question 19

Facilitative communication apprehension

Answer 19

A moderate level of anxiety about speaking to an audience that helps improve speakers performance

Question 20

Debilitative

Answer 20

Anxiety so intense that it ruins your speech performance

Question 21

Things that cause debilitativeness

Answer 21

Bad previous experience, irrational thinking, catastrophic failure, fallacy (assuming it’ll be bad so it is bad), fallacy of perfection, fallacy of approval (you can’t please everyone, over generalization

Question 22

Overcoming apprehension

Answer 22

Use nervousness to your advantage, understand difference between rational and irrational fears, maintain receiver orientation (concentrate on audience feeling rather than your own, positive attitude, being prepared

Question 23

Extemporaneous speech

Answer 23

Planned in advance but presented in a direct spontaneous manner. Conversational in tone, makes audience feel like you’re talking directly to them

Question 24

Impromptu speech

Answer 24

Given off the top of your head without preparation

Question 25

Manuscript speech

Answer 25

Read word for word from a prepared script when you’re speaking for the record and legal proceedings

Question 26

Memorized speech

Answer 26

Most difficult and least effective. They almost seem excessively formal. Practiceeere

Question 27

Visual delivery

Answer 27

Appearance, movement, posture, facial expressions, eye contact

Question 28

Auditory delivery

Answer 28

Volume, pitch, articulation, deletion (leaving off a part of a word), substitution (when you replace a part of a word with an incorrect sound), addition (adding extra parts to words), slurring