The Craft of Speech
Name any philosopher who has contributed to the modern craft of public speaking.
Aristotle, Isocrates, Plato.
What is an extrovert?
Someone who prefers to be in outgoing and social atmospheres
What is public speaking?
The art of delivering a speech or presentation to a live audience, aiming to inform, persuade, or entertain
Is public speaking more likely to be in a large or private setting?
Private setting (work, with friends, at home, etc)
Your instructor asks you to prepare a short speech. This is commonly termed as "the first speech" or "the ice-what"?
An icebreaker
What are some of the three things you can do to improve your speaking craftsmanship?
Practicing and having good role models to emulate, studying and understanding the expectations of audiences, & planning or preparing speeches in advance.
In public speaking, what is visualization?
The act of attempting to imagine what the outcome of the speech will be like
What makes people scared of public speaking?
The judgment of others
Define communication apprehension
The anxiety or fear experienced by communicating
Researchers have repeatedly shown that the primary source of speech anxiety is a lack of what?
Experience
What is the best and most fundamental teacher of the craft?
Experience
What is term for imagining negative future instances, causing them to manifest as reality?
self-fulfilling prophecy
Who was Gorgias?
An ancient Greek sophist who compared public speaking to seduction
Define speech anxiety in regards to communication apprehension
the communication apprehension specific to speech making
Can you name at least two of the four basic steps of preparing and delivering a speech?
Research, organize, practice & deliver
What is techne?
The ancient Greek word for craftsmanship or art.
Is it easier to imagine success or failure?
success
What is the relationship between public speaking and democracy?
It is interconnected- without being able to speak freely democracy won’t be able to function
How does reframing stress help with speech anxiety?
If you tell yourself your anxiety is just excitement, your brain will believe it
By observing your classmates, you will be able to understand basic demographic information about them like their gender, age, fashion sensibility, etc. This type of research is known as audience what?
Audience analysis
Which philosopher stated that “although public speaking is a highly context - dependent craft, there are a number of general guidelines and principles that could be helpful to beginners and pros”?
Aristotle
Explain the logic behind "fake it until you make it"
If you pretend to have confidence in what you are doing, you eventually will
Why are leaders scared of the power public speaking has in regards to civilians?
If people are moved by a speech they can be persuaded to think or feel things that are contrary to the interests of those in power
What are the two ways to reduce speech anxiety?
1. Preparing & planning speech
2. Practicing the speech in public
What is another word for a form of public speaking that appears to require little or no preparation?
Extemporaneous