Chapters 1-10 Exam Flashcards
Trait anxiety
Apprehension about communicating with others in any situation.
Audience centered
Considerate of the positions, beliefs, values, and needs of an audience.
Communication apprehension
Level of fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or persons.
Interference
Anything that stops or hinders a listener from receiving a message.
General purpose
Speech’s broad goal: to inform, invite, persuade, introduce, commemorate, or accept.
Specific purpose
Focused statement that identifies exactly what a speaker wants to accomplish with a speech.
Thesis statement
Statement that summarizes in a single declarative sentence the main ideas, assumptions, or arguments you want to express in your speech.
Dialogue
Interaction, connection, and exchange of ideas and opinions with others.
Attitude
General positive or negative feeling a person has about something.
Belief
Person’s idea of what is real, not real, true, or not true.
Plagiarism
Presenting another person’s words and ideas as your own.
Claim
Assertion that must be proved.
Evidence
Materials that speakers use to support their ideas; consists of examples, narratives, statistics, testimony, and definitions.
Warrant
The evidence you have to be certain your grounds support your claim.
Testimony
Opinions or observations of others.
Transition
Phrase that indicates a speaker is finished with one idea and is moving on to a new one.
Internal summary
Statement in the body of speech that details what the speaker plans to discuss.
Problem-solution pattern
Organization Pattern that focuses on persuading an audience that a specific problem exist and can be solved or minimized by specific solutions.
Spatial pattern
Pattern of organization that arranged ideas in term of location or direction.
Topical pattern
Pattern of organization that allows the speaker to divide a topic into subtopics, each addresses a different aspect of the larger topic.
Introduction
Attention getter, thesis statement, credibility, and preview of main points
Conclusion
Logical outcome of an argument that results from the combination of the major and minor premises.
Extemporaneous Speaking
Speech that is prepared and practiced from brief notes rather than from memory or a written manuscript.
Articulation
Physical process of producing specific speech sounds to make language intelligible.
Pronunciation
An act of saying words correctly according to the accepted standards of a language.
Proxemics
Use of space during communication.
Eye contact
Visual contact with another person’s eyes.
Dialect
Pattern of speech that is shared by an ethnic group or people from specific geographical location.
Impromptu speaking
Speech that is not planned or prepared in advanced.
Manuscript speech
Speech that is read to an audience from a written text.
