Test 3 Flashcards
How do you change beliefs of an audience?
Convince them that change is needed, acceptable, and superior to the present
William McGuire 5 step process
Awareness, understanding, agreement, enactment, and integration
Use co-active approach for reluctant listeners by
- Estbl I.d. and good will early in speech
- Start w/ areas of agreement
- Explanation over argument
- Cite authorities respectable to the audience
- Set modest goals for change
- Make multisided presentation comparing your position w/ others favorably
Sleeper effect
Delayed action to persuasion
Main purpose of persuasive speeches?
- Change existing attitudes or beliefs
2. Reinforce existing attitudes or beliefs
Framing an argument
- Claim
- Data - Evidence
- Warrant
- Support for warrant
- Qualifier
- Reservation
Claim
Based on facts, value, policy or action
Data - Evidence
Proof, studies, expert testimony
Warrant
Drawing conclusion; relationship btwn claim and data
Support for warrant
Evidence to prove warrant
Qualifier
Promoting qualified solution
Reservation
Can counter argument be made
Problem solution design
Persuasive speech design; 1st convinces that there’s a problem and then shows them how to solve it
Motivated sequence design
Alan Monroe; attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action
Maslow’s hierarchy of motive needs
Physical needs > safety > belonging > esteem > self actualization
Reflective thinking
John Dewey;
- Define problem
- Generate potential solutions
- Evaluate solution options
- Develop plan for action
- Evaluate results
6 C’s of language use
Clarity, color, concreteness, correctness, conciseness, and cultural sensitivity
Figurative language
Uses words in unusual ways to create fresh understanding;
Metaphor, simile, synecdoche, personification, culturetypes, and ideographs
Developing your voice
Pitch, rate, volume, variety, vocal problems
Pitch
Placement of voice on scale from low to high
Rate
Speed at which you speak
Volume
Loudness
Variety
Words w/ emotion; not monotone
Vocal problems
Articulation, enunciation, pronunciation, and dialect
Articulation
Way you produce individual speech sounds
Enunciation
Way you pronounce words in context
Pronunciation
Saying words correctly
Dialect
Speech pattern typical of geographic region
Body language
Communication achieved using facial expressions, eye contact, movement, and gestures
Proxemics
Study of how humans use space during communication
Ideographs
Compact expressions of group’s political faith
Culturetypes
Terms that express values and goals of group’s culture
Faulty reasoning
Errors in reasoning making persuasion unreliable