Chapter 14 Flashcards
The manner in which one conveys messages through the spoken word
Oral style
Using language that adapts to the needs, interests, knowledge, and attitudes of the audience
Speaking appropriately
Language used to reduce the psychological distance between you and your audience
Verbal immediacy
How the information can be used now
Timeliness
Information in relation to listeners personal space
Proximity
Background, knowledge, attitudes, experiences, and philosophies shared by speaker and audience
Common ground
The confidence an audience placed in the truthfulness of what a speaker says
Credibility
Words used that apply to one co-cultural group as though they represent everyone
Generic language
Words that are changed because of the sex, race, or other group characteristics of the individual
Nonparallel language
The addition of sex, race, age, or other group designations to a description
Marking
When one emphasizes one persons relationship to another when doing so is not necessary to make the point
Irrelevant association
Using words that convey your meaning precisely
Speaking clearly
Words that narrow what is understood from a general category to a particular item or group within it
Specific language
The unique technical terminology of a trade or profession
Jargon
Informal, nonstandard vocabulary and definitions assigned to words by a social group or subculture
Slang
Unnecessary words interjected to fill moments of silence
Vocalized pauses
Words that are full of life
Vivid language
Words that appeal to seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling
Sensory language
Make striking comparisons between things that are not obviously alike
Rhetorical figures of speech
Combines ideas in a particular way
Rhetorical structures of speech
A direct comparison of the similar things using the words like or as
Simile
An implied comparison between two unlike things, expressed without using like or as
Metaphor
An extended metaphor
Analogy
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are near one another
Alliteration
The repetition of vowel sounds in a phrase or phrases
Assonance
The use of words that sound like the things they stand for
Onomatopoeia
Attributing human qualities to a concept or an inanimate object
Personification
Restating words, phrases, or sentences for emphasis
Repetition
Combining contrasting ideas in the same sentence
Antithesis
