Communication and Language
Say: The dog ran out of the house. Instead of: The dog bounced away from the bed, and flung open the door and escaped out of the gate.
What is using simple language?
As a doctor, making sure you are not vaguely diagnosing your patient, you have to clearly give them their diagnosis.
What is using language that is concrete and precise?
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
What is alliteration?
What is avoiding things like he, man-linked terms, and spotlighting?
Using he to refer to everyone.
Construction Man.
A female nurse?
What is sexist language?
What is a tag question?
The way we try to convey our thoughts to our audience, in different ways.
What is Communication?
We have to avoid using the "specialized language of a group or
profession”
Example: Terms you might use in your core major classes people might not understand.
What is jargon?
“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country?"
What is antithesis?
Using language and examples in your speech that is not inclusive to different sexes and sexual orientations to your audience?
What is heterosexist language?
You should avoid these two types of grammar errors?
What are basic errors and mispronunciations?
The symbols used to convey those thoughts to our audience.
Saying Yo! How's it hanging, dudes? Surf's up? is an example of what?
What is slang?
What is parallel structure?
Avoid using this type of language in your speech.
"This is why the ********* XBOX sucks."
What is profanity?
We always say "The" in front of freeway names.
Our language is often constructed by what? To the point it influences our culture.
What is social reality?
What is this an example of? Staying up for 24 hours straight was as exhausting as running a marathon.
What is a simile?
Using words like "us, you, we" in your speech to connect your speech to your audience.
What is Using Personalized Language?
Which type of moderate exaggeration is okay to use?
What is hyperbole?
Saying I'm gonna instead of going to in your speech.
What is Colloquialism?
My audience prefers my speech to my opponent's because of the way I clearly articulated my points.
What are the "differences language choices can make?"
Avoiding using statements like "I think, or I think we should"
What are hedges?
Using language that is free of bias, does not jump the gun on calling someone something unfairly, and look at things in terms of reality.
What is ethical speaking?
What is "Language that communicates uncertainty?
"The early bird gets the worm!"
"Totally radical man, let's do it!
What are cliches, and "language central to the popular culture?"