Theory of Public Oral Communication
Speech Organization
The Rhetorical Situation
The Audience
Grab Bag
100
This is the power of speech to achieve the common goals of just institutions.
What is public oral communication?
100
This is the main idea of your speech, and where you want your audience to ultimately end up.
What is a claim?
100
This is a situation that requires or demands speech.
What is the/a rhetorical situation?
100
This is an audience made up of several different groups of people.
What is a composite audience?
100
Claim + Supporting Material + Reasoning = ?
What is proof/a unit of proof?
200
This describes using language/POC to deceive or manipulate audiences.
What is sophistry?
200
These are issues that your audience will want to hear addressed in your speech.
What are inherent issues?
200
This is the ability to determine what will happen.
What is agency?
200
This is the process by which ideas are shaped by people, and people are shaped by ideas.
What is adaptation?
200
This is a system of interlocking values and beliefs about a particular topic or the world in general.
What is a schema?
300
This is a model of communication that describes communication as one-directional.
What is the transmission model?
300
This describes the overall coherence/match between the strategies the speaker has chosen to use and the situation.
What is rightness of fit?
300
These groups of people do not have access to state/official forms of democratic power.
What is a counterpublic?
300
This word describes a particular position or point of view, the place from which one "sees" things.
What is scopus?
300
These are the "requirements" for a speech, the determining contexts and situations.
What are constraints?
400
This is a balance point that your second speech should have tried to arrive at, the key points of major difference between multiple perspectives.
What is stasis?
400
These are what enable your audience to make the "leap" from their starting point to your claim.
What are warrants?
400
This is a complex interaction of individuals that constitutes a political culture.
What is a public?
400
This is the idea that all positions on public issues are all equally valid and there is no way to do anything other than "agree to disagree".
What is vicious relativism?
400
In a rhetorical situation, who is the "midwife", and what are they assisting the birth of?
Who is the speaker, and truth?
500
This describes using POC effectively and ethically to successfully connect with an audience and cause positive change through speech.
What is eloquence?
500
These are proverbs, sayings, slogans, etc. that reflect the values, beliefs, and opinions of a particular group of people.
What are topoi/topical points?
500
These are people who are capable of changing/remedying the situation at hand.
What is the audience?
500
This is a group identity cultivated through language.
What is discursive community?
500
Describe the kind of reasoning employed by ethos/pathos/logos.
What is "argument through self", "argument through emotion", "argument through fact"?
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