CMST 131H Study Guide - Final Guide: Eye Contact, Slippery Slope, Stock Issues
30 Oct 2014
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Public speaking as transaction: an exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages between two or more people. Bitzers rhetorical situation: natural context of persons, events, objects, relations, and an exigence{goal} that strongly invite utterance. Exigency: part of bitzers rhetorical situation, the goal a speaker seeks to fufill. Audience: part of bitzers rhetorical situation, speaker and audience exchange verbal and nonverbal messages, feedback. General speech purposes: inform, persuade, entertain. Specific speech purposes: the goal or objective a speaker hopes to achieve in speaking to a particular audience. Types of delivery: manuscript, memorized, impromptu, extemporaneous. Memorized speech delivery: speech is written out and committed to memory before being presented to the audience without the use of notes. Impromptu speech delivery: spontaneous, unrehearsed mode of presenting a speech. Extemporaneous speech delivery: best mode, a mode of presentation that combines careful preparation with spontaneous speaking, use of brief notes rather than a full manuscript or outline.
