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Exam One Flashcards

1
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Basic elements of the communication process

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Sender, receiver, message, and context

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Message

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An organized complex of behaviors that both represent a sender’s thoughts and express his/her feelings during the act of communicating

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Sender

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The person who creates and transmits a message

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Receiver

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The person who takes in and tries to make sense of the message

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Context

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The environment/scenario within which the communication takes place

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Meaning

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The central idea that we want another person to understand and respond to - types: cognitive (conscious) and emotional (unconscious)

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Encoding

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The process of finding and selecting symbols that will represent one’s cognitive meanings

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Medium (channel)

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The body in which a message is transported (air, light, media, etc.)

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External noise

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Obstruction of the message from the outside environment

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Internal noise

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Obstruction of the message from within the person - inattention or selective perception

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Decoding

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A receiver must find meanings within herself that can be given to the symbols and signs the sender has transmitted

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Feedback

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A message generated as a response to a message received

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Rhetorical situation

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A situation in which an issue or problem creates a need for communication

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Exigence

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An imperfection, defect, or problem that can be corrected through the use of discourse

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Audience

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A rhetorical audience consists of those people who can be affected nu discourse and who are capable of assisting in solving a problem

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Constraints

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Factors that can limit or shape the communication process and the decision making of the rhetorical audience (contextual, audience, topic, or speaker)

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Four general categories of speech purpose

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Inform, convince, motivate, and celebrate

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Thesis statement

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The embodiment of the central idea that you want your audience or understand or believe the specific action you want them to perform, or the features of a person or event to which you want them to respond intellectually and emotionally

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Classical canons of rhetoric

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Invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery

20
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Invention

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One of the classical canons of rhetoric
Consists of generating content and strategies for a speech through a speaker’s research and judgment
Focuses on identifying the main ideas, generating supporting material, and devising effective speeches

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Arrangement

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One of the classical canons of rhetoric
Involves organizing and structuring the invented material by presenting it in a logical way
Develop an outline and design introduction, conclusion, and transitions

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Language style

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One of the classical canons of rhetoric
A speaker’s characteristic use of language to help better transmit his meaning to the audience
Emphasizes selecting words and constructing phrases/sentences/paragraphs that give effective expression to the ideas advanced in the speech

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Memory

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One of the classical canons of rhetoric

Mastering of the material through practice and rehearsal

24
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Types of memorization

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Internal (impromptu) , external (manuscript), and mixed (extemporaneous)

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Delivery

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One of the classical canons of rhetoric - the culmination of the planning and preparation of the speech

26
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The three pistes

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Ethos, pathos, and logos

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Ethos

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A mode of persuasion available to a speaker when designing a message
Refers to the audience’s perception of the speaker’s character

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Pathos

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A mode of persuasion available to a speaker when designing a message
Involves the use of emotional appeals to an audience in trying to shape their beliefs and decisions

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Logos

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A mode of persuasion available to a speaker when designing a message
Denotes the reasoning used in the speech to convince an audience

30
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Public speaking

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Vocal communication to a group of people

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Rhetoric

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The art of speaking

32
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Art

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A craft involving some sort of skill of fine art - skills are an ideal balance between stability through repetition and flexibility through adaptation

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Speaking

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A physical action that produces sound used for communication and expression of something of meaning

34
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Transactional model

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An incorrect model of communication that that believes communication is only an exact transfer

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Prestructure

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The notion that everyone decides in advance the meaning of what we haven’t encountered yet

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Relucence

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The concept that has to do with the way our experiences reflect the prestructured meaning the speaker has given to the receiver

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