Lecture 9
What is General Purpose?
The broad purpose to a speech
Audience: a group of kindergarten teachers
Topic: To adopt a new disciplinary method for their classrooms
Which two word general purpose is being used?
(to inform, to entertain, to persuade)
To persuade
How does the size the audience impact your language?
Define Analysing the Audience
(4 main points)
Use direct observation
Do systematic data collection
Conduct selected interviews/focus groups
Talk with the contact person
Specific Purpose includes General Purpose
True or false
True
Audience: community members
Topic: About the newly proposed swimming pool plans that have been adopted
Which two word general purpose is being used?
(to inform, to entertain, to persuade)
To inform
What is a central idea and what is it often used in?
One-sentence statement that encapsulates main points of the speech
Often used as a preview in speeches
How does time (morning, lunch, afternoon) affect the audience?
Morning: the audience is tired
During lunch: the audience is hungry
Afternoon: the audience wants to go home
What are two words examples for general purpose?
Audience: my peers in class
Topic: To vote for me for class president
Which two word general purpose is being used?
(to inform, to entertain, to persuade)
To persuade
Is occasion based on purpose and size?
True or False
False
What answers is Specific Purpose looking for?
Answers in complete sentence, doesn't use figurative language, and isn't too vague
Audience: the guests attending my mother's birthday party
Topic: By telling a humorous story followed by a toast
Which two word general purpose is being used?
(to inform, to entertain, to persuade)
To entertain
What's so important of the physical environment?
The room itself affects the way you present
You have to consider and take into context
Define Attitudes, Beliefs and Values and what are the difference between the 3 (What can you work with and what you cannot work with)?
Attitudes: General disposition, can work with it
Beliefs: views we hold of the world, can work with it but takes time and effort
Values: views of right and wrong, cannot work with it
What are the 6 theories? idk what they r jill just mentioned it in the gc
Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)
Psychological Reactance Theory
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Social Judgement Theory
Extended Parallel Processing Model (EPPM)
Inoculation Theory
Bonus if you got it correct: https://outplayed.tv/repo/zr5kob
Does General purpose or specific purpose introduce your topic to the audience?
Specific purpose
Audience: A group of executives
Topic: By describing the lighter side of life in "cubicle-ville"
Which two word general purpose is being used?
(to inform, to entertain, to persuade)
To entertain
What are the different 6 types of situational variables in analysing your audience?
Occasion
Size
Physical Environment
Time
Audience disposition
Analysing the audience
What are the audience dispositions?
Attitudes
Beliefs
Values