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FINALS Flashcards

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the medium (computer, telephone, letter, memo, report, announcement, picture, spoken word, or other channels) over which the message is transmitted.

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Channel

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refers to the spectators, listeners, and intended readers of a writing, performance, or speech.

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Audience

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is an informal language or conversational-in-tone register used by peers and friends.

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Casual Register

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is the art and process of creating and sharing ideas.

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Communication

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is a standard form of communication used when consulting an expert and the language used is more precise.

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Consultative register

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involves things such as your audience, the culture of your organization and your general environment.

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Context

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compares the values and behaviors of different cultures and usually means judging them against standards of right and wrong for your own culture.

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Cultural relativism

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consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society.

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Culture

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is translating the message from its symbol forming a meaning.

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Decoding

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is showing favoritism toward or prejudiced rejection of people because of differences.

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Discrimination

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is a projection device that uses a video camera to capture and display images, including 3-D visual materials.

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Document camera

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is converting the idea into words or gestures that will convey meaning.

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Encoding

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refers to the responsibility of the sender to provide information
that is fully adequate for the circumstance, truthful in every sense, and not deceptive in any way.

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Ethical communication

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refers to a national or racial group.

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Ethnic

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is the inherent belief that your own cultural traditions and values are correct and superior.

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Ethnocentrism

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refers to the verbal and nonverbal responses of the receiver created which is sent back to the sender.

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Feedback

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17
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is a large pad of paper that rests on an easel allowing a speaker to record text or drawings with markers during a speech.

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Flip chart

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is a language variety used in formal settings and is one-way in nature that usually follows a commonly accepted format.

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Formal Register

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refers to the increasing economic, political, and cultural integration and interdependence of diverse cultures or the worldwide integration of humanity

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Globalization

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are sheets of paper containing relevant information that are distributed before, during, and after a speech

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Handouts

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is considered a private communication reserved for close family members or intimate people.

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Intimate register

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22
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is a system of symbols and rule for their use that make it possible for people to understand and communicate one another

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Language

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is a language variety that is appropriate in a specific situation or refers to the degrees of formality in language use

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Language register

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is the information that the source or the sender wants to communicate.

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Message

25
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is a copy of an object, usually built to scale, that represents the object in detail.

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Model

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refers to the integration of different modes of text to create meaning and to convey messages.

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Multimodal

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is any communication, other than written or spoken language that creates meaning for someone.

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Nonverbal communication

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is a clear, acetate page displayed by means of an overhead projector.

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Overhead transparency

29
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usually means use of a wheelchair, a cane, crutches, or a walker or difficulty seeing, hearing, speaking, or performing physical activities.

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Physical disability

30
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are technical and material resources ranging from presentation software such as PowerPoint to flip charts and handouts that speakers use to highlight, clarify, and complement the information they present orally.

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Presentation media

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is a computer software that allows users to display information in multimedia slide shows.

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Presentation software

32
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is defined as people who share the same language, history, and characteristics or who have similar physical characteristics.

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Race

33
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is employing a live internet feed as a visual media or information resource during a public speech.

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Real-time Web Access (RWA)

34
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is the recipient of the message.

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Receiver

35
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is the sender of the message who knows why the communication is necessary and what result is needed.

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Source

36
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is the style of communication that is rarely or never changes.

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Static register

37
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is assuming that behaviors or characteristics typical of a particular culture define all members of that cultural group.

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Stereotypes

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is the ability to decode, interpret, create, question, challenge, and evaluate texts that communicate with visual images as well as, or rather than, words.

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Visual literacy

39
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is a smooth white board that can be written or drawn on with markers.

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White board

40
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is simply the act of transferring information from one place, person or group to another.

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Communication

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is a letter, character, or sign used instead of a word to represent a quantity, position, relationship, direction, or something to be done

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Symbol

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is usually a letter from one company to another, or between such organizations and their customers, clients and other external parties. The overall style of letter depends on the relationship between the parties concerned.

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Business Letter

43
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is written to identify or correct a wrong.

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Claim request letter

44
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is a business letter written to request information or action.

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Information and action request

45
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is a response letter to requests for information or action. Your messages will respond favorably to requests for information or action. Many business messages are written to request information or action.

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Information response

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commonly called memos, are brief communications within an organization.

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Memorandum

47
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is a specific type of speech in which the speaker has a goal of convincing the audience to accept his or her point of view.

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Persuasive speech

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refer to the record of the proceedings of a deliberative assembly.

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Minutes of the meeting

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is a letter responding to a claim that allows the writer to explain why the claim must be refused.

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Refusing claim

50
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is a handbook for running meetings effectively and efficiently, based on the procedures used in the British parliament. The principles included in the handbook are applicable to any decision-making organization, from Congress to community club committees.

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Robert’s Rules of Order

51
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are written for the purpose of asking for something from the recipient.

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Inquiry letters

52
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is one that intends to educate the audience on a particular topic.

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Informative speech

53
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by definition, is the one that a speaker delivers without any prior preparation on the topic.

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impromptu speech

54
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is one where the speaker is given the topic well in advance and the speaker is given time to research it and rehearse the speech.

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Prepared speech

55
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is a speech that is recited from memory rather than read from cue cards or using the assistance of notes.

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memorized speech

56
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is a written text read to an audience from a paper or teleprompter.

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Manuscript speaking

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