Honors speech Unit 1 test

Inherency

The issues that an audience wants or needs to have answered when you make a claim for their assent

Qualities of inherent issues

Not optional, essential, unavoidable

How is a speech claim’s inherency relative to an audience and occasion

Relative to a particular situation, time, and audience

Stasis

The point in an argument where the various perspectives have been sorted, strengths and weaknesses balanced, and irrelevant arguments discarded.

Audience centered approach to public speaking

Start from the POV of the other person

Strategic dimension of public speaking

calcularte, induce

Ethical dimension of public speaking

befriend, judging what is the best thing to do

eloquence

to achieve the common good with and for others in just institutions

sophistry

con artist, spin doctor, trickster

public speech

formal

private speech

informal

public

a mass of people so large you could not possibly know everyone

laws, societies, institutions

Society

the public + institutions

school/government

minimal amount of organization without turning into chaos

community

a collective with a sense of shared purpose, mutual respect, and care for its members

strengths of community

belonging, support, caring

Negatives of community

conformity, loss of freedom, loss of privacy

Positives of society

freedom, independence, anonymity

Negatives of society

alienation, isolation, indifference

Topic in public speaking

theme- war in Ukraine

Claim in public speaking

full sentance- dogs should be spayed

Mathematical or Scientific claim

does not have bias, true in every situation

Audience center claim

claim about an issue important to your audience

elements of a good claim

concrete, specific,

in the form of a simple, declarative sentence

tightly focused, not generic

no loaded language/bias

fitted to contraints of situation

Inherency

the issues that an audience wants or needs to have answered when you make a claim for their assent

qualities of inherent issues

not optional

essential

unavoidable

Stasis

the point where the various perspectives have been sorted, the strengths and weaknesses weighted, balancing points canceled out, and the irrelevant arguments discarded