The number of people who will be present for a speech.
What is audience size?
100
Audience members' characteristics including, but not limited to, age, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religious orientation, educational background, and political affiliation.
What is demographics?
100
Common heritage based on genetically shared physical characteristics of people in a group.
What is race?
200
the setting you deliver the speech (also called forum)
What is location?
200
A demographic consideration that affects an audience's response to and understanding of a speaker's message.
What is age?
200
the time of day or day of the week when an audience will be listening to a preentation. An audience is more prone to distraction at certain times of the day, such as lunchtime, and certain days of the week, such as Friday.
What is body clock (chronemics)?
300
Use the allotted time to craft the speech.
What is presentation time?
300
Cultural background that is usually associated with shared religion, national origin, and language
What is ethnicity?
300
Presentation time The length of time a speaker has to deliver his or her speech.
What is presentation time?
400
If audience members are free to leave during the speech, you must work extra hard to keep their attention.
What is mobility?
400
the setting where a speaker delivers, and an audience listens to, a speech
What is location (forum)?
400
A demographic characteristic that considers how many men versus how many women will be in an audience.
What is gender compostion?
500
Characteristics of listeners that help you anticipate your audience's beliefs about your topic.
What is incorporating domographics?
500
Quick audience analysis just before or during a speech, to be conducted if the makeup or responses of an audience were unkown before the speech or are different from what the speaker expected.
What is situational audience analysis?
500
An oversimplified, often distorted view of what it means to be male or female.