Speech I Vocabulary

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Sender

The person who speaks

Receiver

The person who’s listening to the speaker, aka the audience

Encode

Converting ideas, thoughts, and feelings into words or actions

Decode

Where the receiver (the person who’s listening) breaks down the words and actions into meaning

Delivery

Methods used to send the message to the audience

Impromptu

Not prepared for the method, spur-of-the-moment

Memory

When you memorize a speech, and then deliver it perfectly as to how you rehearsed it

Denotation

The literal or dictionary definition of a word

Connotation

The personal association the receiver (audience) has with the message by the sender

Message

The main idea of the sender’s speech

Channel

The medium through which the message is sent from the sender to the receiver, both are visual and/or auditory

Auditory Channel

Receive spoken words

Visual Channel

Receives nonverbals like eye contact, body movements, facial gestures, etc.

Manuscript

Word-for-word iteration of a written message

Noise

Anything that interferes with the message being encoded or decoded. Noise can be external or internal

Physical Noise

Interference from external sounds (people talking, papers rustling, doors opening and shutting)

Physiological Noise

Interference from internal physical state (hunger, illness, or pain)

Psychological Noise

Interference with wandering thoughts

Semantic Noise

Interference from misunderstood meanings (the L gesture with your fingers meaning “loser”)

Context

The situation that influences the speaker, audience, and message

Frame of Reference

The lens through which you view the world that informs how we encode and decode through messages

Speaker

The person who speaks, or sends a message to the audience

Audience

Listeners who are actively involved in receiving the message from the speaker, aka the person who speaks

Socio-psychological Context

The relationship between the speaker and the audience

Temporal Context

Time of day and where the speech fits into the sequence of events

Cultural Context

The collection of beliefs, attitudes, values, and ways of behaving shared by a group of people

Extemporaneous

When presentations are researched, prepared for, and rehearsed. It is planned, conversational, and natural style

Ethics

The speaker needs to be credible and truthful, using sources and verifying the sources while the audience needs to be respectful and good listeners