Receiver decodes
Speaker encodes
Lecture 1
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Public speaking situation
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1. Communicative purpose (intent)
Inform
Persuade
Entertain (convey a feeling, not always a good one)
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2. Uninterrupted floor time
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3. 2 + listeners
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Immediacy effect: message delivered in person is most effective
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Makes message seem more important and more real
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Oral composition: putting our ideas into a form that maximizes benefits and
minimizes drawbacks of listening
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Speech delivery
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Extemporaneous delivery: not spontaneous; combination of formal and
informal
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Formal delivery: read from a manuscript
Advantage: control
Disadvantages: not flexible, boring, little immediacy
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Impromptu delivery: might forget, ramble, repeat
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We fear public speaking
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Confrontation reaction
Biological reaction
Fight or flight
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People facing you = attack, war
By about 90 seconds the brain starts to override confrontation reaction
Lecture 2
Message: 1) content, 2) affect, 3) relational
Feedback
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Content is the literal message
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Affect is the sender’s feelings about the message
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Relational indicates status and affinity
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Code
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Symbols
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Signs
No verbal indicators (facial expressions, tone of voice)
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Sarcasm: signs don’t match symbols
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Active listening
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1. Sensing: physical (hearing, seeing)
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2. Attending (focusing and keying)
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3. Understanding (decoding and meaning)
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4. Responding
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Environment: physical, emotional, social, time
Lecture 3: Cicero’s 5 Steps
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Invention: need to think about general purpose (inform, persuade, and/or
entertain), and topic

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- Fall '10
- Schubb
- Rhetoric, 90 seconds, Connotative, te Memory, Inform Persuade Entertain
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