Chapter 1 Flashcards
Four types of appeals
Logos, ethos, pathos, mythos
Appeals to audiences ability to reason or work through your ideas logically
Logos
Appeal of reliability
Ethos
Appealing to the audiences emotions to maintain their interest or to convince them of your intent
Pathos
Appeals to your audiences need for group membership and connection to the groups traditions, identity, and values.
Mythos
Speech anxiety
Communication apprehension
The assumption that your group or culture is better than all others
Ethnocentrism
When speakers take an entire speech or document and present it as their own or when a speaker takes entire parts of information from other sources and links it together, creating an entire speech out of someone else’s words
Blatant plagiarism
Occurs when speakers fail to give source credit to a specific part of their speech that has been taken from another source
No citation plagiarism
As a public speaker, you’re morally and legally obligated to comply with laws that protect freedom of speech and press
First amendment
The person who initiates and is responsible for most of the message
Speaker
Person or persons receiving the speakers message and contributing feedback
Audience
Verbal and nonverbal ideas encoded by the speaker and he coded by the audience
Message
The process of conveying
Encoding
The process of interpreting
Decoding
Consists of the verbal or nonverbal messages and coded by the audience in decoded by the speaker
Feedback
The means of getting the message across, such as a voice over the airwaves or visual messages in the form of non-verbal or visual aids
Channel
Anything that interferes with the message or feedback
Noise