The Basics
Organized and intentional type of communication aimed at a group of people
What is public speaking?
The way a message travels from the speaker to their audience.
What is a channel?
Type of audience analysis that focuses on attitudes, beliefs, and values.
What are psychographic characteristics?
The fear of pubic speaking.
What is glossophobia?
Most important way to improve a speech.
What is practice?
Public speaking is described as an "enlarged" version of this everyday interaction.
What is a conversation?
The two people involved in the communication process.
What are the sender and the receiver?
Shared values, language, and norms of a group.
Mindset that you must be perfect or you will fail.
What is "all or nothing" thinking?
Out of respect for the audience, the speech should stay within these limits.
What are time limits?
The three main purposes of public speaking.
What are to inform, persuade, and entertain?
Anything that disrupts communication.
What is noise?
This type of audience analysis looks at age, ethnicity, or religion.
What are demographic characteristics?
The fear that an audience will reject you or your ideas.
What is the fear of rejection?
What is physical preparation?
Public speaking usually involves this many people in the audience.
What is five or more people?
Nonverbal audience response such as nodding and facial expressions.
What is feedback?
This type of context includes the environment and how it's set up.
What is physical context?
Strategy of focusing on the audience and the message instead of yourself.
What is mental preparation.
Rhetorical step that involves organizing ideas logically.
What is disposition?
Public speaking requires this, meaning it is planned and has a clear goal.
What is intention/being intentional?
Turning thoughts into words and symbols.
What is encoding?
The personal or emotional meaning of a word.
What is connotative meaning?
Concept that skills can improve over time rather than be fixed.
What is growth mindset?
Rhetoric step that involves recalling your speech for effective presentation.