Why Communication Matters
Gestures, facial expressions, distancing, eye contact, or other body movements to express or emphasize an idea or situation.
What are nonverbal cues?
What are gender pronouns?
A commencement speech, toast, eulogy, and other ceremonial speeches that memorialize or celebrate an occasion.
What is a Commemorative speech/speaking?
When giving your College Motivational Speech you nervously insert filler words such as ahh, um, uh, like, and you know after each sentence.
What are vocalized pauses?
The act of purposefully selecting what to say in a way that will be seen most favorably for a given audience.
What is framing?
Vocalized sounds that indicate agreement, disagreement, acknowledgement, or another communicative clue about a message or messenger.
What are verbal clues?
If something "slaps" or "smacks", it's really good. We used these words in the past to refer to the action of hitting or striking someone or something. This meaning includes meanings that are associated with a word because of the word has been used over time is...
What is the connotative meaning?
Someone in the class wants to give a speech explaining how Jeff Bezos briefly entered space. The purpose of this speech and others like it are to teach or explain to achieve shared understanding.
What is informative speaking/speech?
Cal State LA, Mosque, East LA - they teach us about the value and roles of our various identities and social positions.
What are socializing agents?
When in person, they can be wedding rings on fingers. On Zoom, it can be a shoe collection in the background.
What are artifacts?
Crafting messages in a way that is easily available and understood by the intended audience is known as...
What is accessibility?
The word "fire" can have multiple meanings, but in this meaning it is defined as a chemical combustion that gives out heat, light, and smoke.
What is the denotative meaning?
Someone in the class wants to give a speech to the class that advocates against the colonization of the moon. This type of speech focuses on trying to change the audience's attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors.
What is a persuasive speech/speaking?
According to communication scholars Tracy & Trethewey, we are diamonds that shine brilliantly and differently depending on the light/people around us.
What is the crystalized self?
You are a college freshman giving a speech in your COMM 1100 class about tips to save money in college. Based on your research, your audience generally things positively about your topic.
What is a favorable audience?
A recognition that as an independent person you get to make (and live with the consequences of) decisions and actions for your life.
What is agency?
This part of the semiotic triangle is the arbitrary symbol, or the word, that is used to represent the thing that we are communicating about.
What is sign?
What are artistic proofs?
You are walking around campus with your friends and talking about your weekend plans. Then you go home and your parents ask what you will be up to this weekend, and the way you answered your parents shifted. This is the practice of adapting your verbal and nonverbal language choices.
What is codeswitching?
While giving a speech about recalling Gavin Newsom, you constantly watch your audiences facial expressions and body language to gauge their level of interest and to see their reactions to your speech.
What is direct observation?
Ability, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, social class, body size, and age are all examples of components of the human experience that create lenses of understanding.
What are social identities?
In the semiotic triangle, it's not the word, or the thought. It's the actual thing or object as we perceive it.
What is the signifier?
A classmate read an article about the Great Resignation, which is the ongoing trend of employees voluntarily leaving their jobs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This student was inspired to write a speech about starting a small business. This student clearly considered the time and place that they were speaking, also known as...
What is Kairos?
In American English, it's "uh-LOO-muh-nuhm". In British English, it's "al-loo-MIN-ee-um". This is how words sound when you say it.
What is pronunciation?
Your straight friends and your gay friends all come over to your house for Halloween. After a couple of hours, one straight friend starts saying insensitive and borderline homophobic things in front of your gay friends. Your straight friend is unable to imagine the experience of your gay friends.
What is experience empathy gap?