Chapter 10 - Using Language Well
When we try to transfer what it is in our minds to the minds of the audience/other people.
What is communication?
To celebrate, entertain, or inspire the audience.
What is the purpose of a special occasion speech?
Practice out loud
What is a great way to build confidence and practice your speech all alone?
Audience analysis
What is understanding how a speaker connects with an audience ?
Be observant, involve the audience, keep it conversational, embrace imperfections, perfect story telling, work the stage, use creative props, the power of persuasion, eye contact, be flexible and spontaneous.
What are public speaking lessons we can learn from comedians?
Phrases or expressions that, because of overuse, lost rhetorical power.
What are cliches?
Humor that comes from the speakers Personal Experiences.
What is situational humor?
Replace destructive thinking with supportive thinking
What is a self-reflective regimen that has the 3 step process of:
Direct observation, Inference, and Data Sampling
What are the three overarching methods (or “paradigms”) for doing an audience analysis?
Technical skills, or soft skills
What are the two types of skills a person could have?
The balance of two or more similar phrases.
What is parallel structure?
To emotionally connect with the audience.
What does it mean to finesse the obvious?
Personal and habitual
What are the two types of frame of reference?
Variables in audience analysis
What are characteristics of your audience?
A break in the reality in a surprising and funny way
How does the “Comedy writing tips” article define a punchline?
Jargon
What is "Specialized language of a group or profession"?
To praise or blame, condemn or commend, to celebrate or give thanks.
What is epideictic oratory used for?
Fear of scrutiny
What is the fear of being in a situation where you're being watched?
Situational analysis, demographic analysis, psychological analysis, multicultural analysis, interest and knowledge analysis
What are five "categories" of audience analysis?
In the “Canadian Accent” video Jeff Arcui laughed at him and then made of his remark/ turned it into part of the joke.
How does he deflect the negative comment from a person in the audience?
Use contrasting statements in order to make a rhetorical point.
What does antithesis allow you to do?
Toast, Roast, Speech to Present an award, Acceptance speech, Keynote address, Commemorative and tribute speech, After dinner speech.
What is the 7 types of special occasion speeches?
State anxiety
What is the type of anxiety that is external from the situation that someone is in?
Basic questionnaire, ordered categories, Likert-Type testing
What are types of data sampling?
Assess the energy level, adjust pacing, and recognizing what’s working.
What is “reading the room”?