Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards
Intrapersonal Communication Definition
Communicating with yourself through your own thoughts.
Audience Analysis
Learning about the diverse characteristics of the people who make up the audience.
Speech-Planning Process
The system you use to prepare for a speech.
Impersonal Communication
Communication between people about general information, such as saying “hi” to someone in the hallways.
Speech-Making Process
Process of giving a speech to the audience.
Speaking Expressively
Use various vocal techniques so you sound a bit more dramatic than you would in casual conversation.
Rhetorical Devices
Language techniques that create and hold audience attention and help audience members remember what you said in your speech.
Empower
To make more confident and assertive.
Interpersonal Communication
Communication between two people who have a relationship with each other.
Plagiarism
Stealing and passing off the ideas, words, or creating works of someone else as your own.
Ethics
A set of moral principles that a society, group, or individual holds that distinguish right from wrong and good behavior from bad behavior.
Nonverbal Communication
The way you stand when giving a speech and the way you use your eyes, face, and hands.
Public Speaking
A formal presentation made by a speaker to an audience.
Listening
Receiving spoken communication from another person and making an effort to hear and understand what the person is saying.
Attention span
Length of time you can concentrate and listen effectively.
Monotone
An unchanging tone without rising or falling in the speaker’s voice.
Critical Listening
Evaluate what the speaker is saying and decide on the value of the message.
Understanding
The ability to assign accurate meaning to what was said.
Remembering
Being able to recall and retain the information you heard.
Active listening
Includes identifying how ideas are organized, asking questions, silently paraphrasing, watching nonverbal clues, and taking notes.
Paraphrase
Restating the speaker’s meaning in your own words.
Research
Investigating a subject to learn the facts about it.
Credentials
Your experience or education that qualifies you to speak with authority on a specific subject.
Primary Source
First-hand accounts that you conduct or those written by people who were part of the original event or research.
Follow-Up Question
A question you ask during an interview that results from the answers to your primary questions.
Open Question
Broad-based questions that ask the interviewee to provide perspective, ideas, information, values, goals, or opinions.
Closed Question
Narrowly focused questions that require only brief answers such as yes or no.
Neutral Question
Questions are asked in a way that does not direct a person’s answer.
Leading Question
Questions are asked in a way that suggests you have a preferred answer.
Critical Analysis
The process of evaluating what you have heard to determine a speech’s completeness.
Credibility
A speaker’s ability to inspire trust and belief.
Critique
A formal assessment of a speech requires you to analyze and evaluate a speech’s effectiveness according to how well the speaker meets specific key criteria.
Constructive Critique
An analysis of a speech that evaluates how well a speaker meets a specific speaking goal while following the rules for good speaking and recommends how the speech might be improved.
Speech Plan
A strategy for achieving your speech goals.
Speech Goal
A statement of what you want your audience to know, believe, or do.
Audience Adaptation
Process of writing your speech to meet the needs and interests of the listeners.
Demographics
Characteristics of a group of people.
Outline
A plan of main points and supporting detail that you want to cover in your speech.
Chronological Order
A method of arranging things in relation to when they happen in time.
Topical Order
A method of arranging information by subjects, facts, or points.
Visual Aid
An object, picture, photo, chart, or other images that the audience can see.
Eye Contact
A form of nonverbal communication that occurs when two people look at one another for a few seconds.
Animated Delivery
A lively, energetic, enthusiastic, and dynamic delivery.
Speak Clearly
Speaking so the audience can make out what you are saying.
Pitch
How high or low is the sound of your voice is.
Quality Of Voice
The tone that distinguishes your voice from everyone else’s.
Accent
The speech habits of people from a specific country, region of a country, or even a state or city.
Articulation
The way you use your mouth and lips to form words.
Vocal Expressiveness
The variety you create in your voice through changing pitch, volume, and rate; the expressing of certain words; and using pauses.
Stress
To emphasize certain words by speaking them more loudly than they rest of the sentence
Pause
A moment of silence enhances the meaning of an idea.
Gestures
How you move your hands, arms, and fingers.
Movement
Changing the position of your entire body.
Sender
The sender begins the communication process.
Message
The message may be in words (written or spoken), pictures, or even video.
Receiver
The receiver physically receives the message and then translates/decodes the message.
Feedback
The feedback is the receiver’s response to the sender and concludes the communication process.