Oral Communication: Second Quarter (Types of Speech Context, Speech Styles, and Speech Act)

Intrapersonal Communication

Type of speech context that is self-centered kind of communication with only the speaker as the sender and receiver. The message is made up of the speaker’s ideas and emotions in which the channel is his brain that processes them.

Wisemann and Barker Self Communication Framework

Widely used model of intrapersonal communication. According to this, “Creating, functioning, and evaluation of symbolic processes which operate within the originating or responding communicator”.

Interpersonal Communication

Type of speech context that means that is the process by which people exchange information, feelings, and meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages: it is face-to-face communication.

Interpersonal Communication

Type of speech context that is not just about what is actually said - the language used- but how it is said and the non-verbal messages sent through tone of voice, facial expressions, gensures, and body language.

Dyad

A kind of Interpersonal communication that is considered as the most basic kind, by which two people mutually share information, ideas, or even arguments.

Small Group

A kind of Interpersonal communication that refers to a group small enough in size to facilitate every member’s interacting with every other member and whose members perceive themselves as a cooperative unit, creating a structure of role relationships and develop a normative patterns of relating to one another.

Public Communication

Type of speech context that involves a single speaker, who in a relatively formal tone and manner, presents a continuous, uninterrupted, informative, persuasive, or entertaining discourse of supposedly general interest to a sizable number of other persons.

Speech Style

Refers to the manner a person or group act in the midst of people in the society. There should be a mutual understnading why such conversation occur. Knowing this can help prevent misunderstandings and arguments from happening, or else you may come off as disrespectful.

Intimate

A type of speech style that is the language used by very close friends or lovers, which is so private and requires significant amount of shared history, knowledge, and experiences.

Intimate

What kind of speech style is this: sharing a serious problem to a best friend

Intimate

What kind of speech style is this: asking advice from parents about serious mattter.

Casual

A type of speech style that is the language used by friends during their orginary conversations. The word choice is too general and the conversation is dependent upon nonverbal assists, significant knowledge, and shared information.

Intimate

What kind of speech style is this: using contractions using conversation

Intimate

What kind of speech style is this: using slang words

Intimate

What kind of speech style is this: using simplified grammar

Consultative

A type of speech style that is known as the third level of language. Formal registers are used in this type of conversaiton. Less appropriate in writing.

Consultative

What kind of speech style is this: when a student is talking to his teacher about school matters

Consultative

What kind of speech style is this: when a client talks to his lawyer

Formal

A type of speech style that is the standard for work, school, business maters. It is expected to be presented in complete sentences and with specific uses of the language.

Formal

What kind of speech style is this: job interview, business, and meetings

Formal

What kind of speech style is this: academic papers

Formal

What kind of speech style is this: dinner party

Formal

What kind of speech style is this: prestigious ceremony

Frozen

A type of speech style that is also known as Fixed Language. Reserved in traditions in which the language does not change in a number of generations. This is the kind of language used when talking to strangers.

Frozen

What kind of speech style is this: pledge of allegiance

Frozen

What kind of speech style is this: wedding ceremony

Frozen

What kind of speech style is this: introduction of new acquaintances

Speech Acts

These are things done to communicate and express a certain attitude.

Locution (Utterance)

A type of speech act that is roughly equivalent to saying a certain sentence with a certain meaning in the traditional sense.

Locution

What type of speech act is this: “That coffee tastes good”

Locution

What type of speech act is this: “You’re the best”

Illocution (Intention)

A type of speech act that are utterances which have certain conventional force such as informing, ordering, and warning.

Illocution

What type of speech act is this: “Go home early”

Illocution

What type of speech act is this: “It’s your exam tomorrow, review your lessons”

Illocution

What type of speech act is this: “I will see you tomorrow”

Perlocution (Response)

A type of speech act that is saying something that tries to achieve such as convincing, persuading, deterring, or surprising.

Perlocution

What type of speech act is this: “I was born a Catholic, I will die a Catholic”

Perlocution

What type of speech act is this: “Vote for me and I will make this nation great again”

Perlocution

What type of speech act is this: “It is because of your lifestyle that you are in that kind of situation”