DRAM 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Stiff Voice, Xerostomia, Blood Vessel

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Dramatic Art
• Course: DRAM 2100
• Professor: Simon Du Toit

Document Summary

Speech anxiety can preoccupy thoughts and adversely affect the ability to prepare a speech. Mark twain: two types of speakers nervous ones and liars. 85% of the population fears public speaking, of whom experience moderately high to very high anxiety. True for both face to face and online speeches to remote audiences. One good way to overcome this fear is to speak publicly as much as possible. Going blank is one of the most common concerns of novice speakers. These symptoms make sense if you are about to fight or need to flee a dangerous situation, but not in the case of public speaking. Dysfunctional speech anxiety: when fight or flight response prevents a person from effectively giving a speech. Functional speech anxiety: occurs when the fight or flight response is managed and actually helps a person to give a better speech (usually low to moderate anxiety not no anxiety)