COM 326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eye Contact, Alliteration, Paralanguage
3 Nov 2016
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Extemporaneous: speaking is conversational, because you can adapt your words and how you deliver them during your speech delivery. Naturalness: smooth, polished, but not over-rehearsed. All non-linguistic cues: paralanguage, visual cues. Manuscript: when language must be exact. Volume: for most your volume should be louder than what is comfortable. Pitch: varied ranges of sounds can imbue statements with meaning, avoid monotune speaking. Rate: moderate rate of speech: greatest credibility. Pauses: use strategically to punctuate the message, avoid fillers. How high or low you speak a very high-pitched voice can be painful to the ear; a low-pitched voice is difficult to hear. Monotone versus varying pitch practice varying your pitch by readi(cid:374)g (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s stories out loud. Rate is the speed of your delivery/speech. O(cid:373)e speakers are (cid:271)reaki(cid:374)g the (cid:862)speaki(cid:374)g li(cid:373)it(cid:863) (cid:449)he(cid:374) they deli(cid:448)er their speech. If you notice that you start stumbling over your words or getting tongue-tied, you are speaking too quickly.
