Rhetoric
Practice of giving speeches was known as this. Making effective speeches, particularly those of a persuasive name.
Agora
Meeting in a public squares.
Forum
Piled their public speaking skills in a public space.
Public Forum
Denotes a variety of venues for the discussion of issues of public interest. Include traditional physical spaces such as town halls as well as virtual forums streamed to listeners online.
Forensic Oratory
Advocating or legal speech
Deliberative
Speech given in legislative or political contexts.
Epideictic
Speech deliver in special ceremonies, such as celebrations and funerals.
Canons of Rhetoric
Aristotle divided the process of preparing a speech into five parts: invention, arrangement, style memory, and delivery.
Invention
Refers to adapting speech information to the audience in order to make your case.
Arrangement
Organizing the speech in ways that are best suited to the topic and the audience.
Style
Speaker uses language to express the speech ideas.
Memory
Practice of the speech until it can be artfully delivered.
Delivery
Vocal and nonverbal behavior you use when speaking.
Inventio
Discovering the speech material.
Dispositio
Arranging the material.
Elocutio
Styling the speech.
Memoria
Remembering all the various lines of argument to prove a case.
Pronuntiatio
Vocal and nonverbal delivery.
Dyadic Communication
Between two people as in a conversation.
Small Group Communication
Small number of people who can se and speak directly with one another.
Mass Communication
Between a speaker and a large audience of unknown people.
Public Speaking
Speaker delivers a message with a specific purpose to an audience who are present during the delivery of the speech.
Source
Sender is the person who creates a message. Transform ideas and thoughts into messages and sends them to a receiver or an audience.
Encoding
Creating, organizing, and producing the message.
Receiver
Recipient of the source's message is this.
Decoding
Process of interpreting the message.
Feedback
Audience's response to a message, can be conveyed verbally and nonverbal.
Message
Content of the communication process: thoughts and ideas put into meaningful expressions. Expressed verbally and nonverbally.
Channel
Medium through which the speaker sends a message.
Noise
Any interference with the message.
Shared Meaning
Mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience.
Lowest Level
Occurring when the speaker has merely caught the audience attention.
Higher Degree
Shared meaning is possible with listener and speaker together truly make a speech a speech.
Context
Anything that influences the speaker, the audience, the occasion, and the speech.
Rhetorical Situation
Circumstance calling for a public response.
Audience-Centered Approach
You keep the needs, values, attitudes, and want your listeners firmly in focus.
Speech Purpose
Early on will help you proceed through speech preparation and delivery with a clear focus in mind.
Constructive Feedback
Invaluable tool for self evaluation and improvement.
Culture
Language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next.
Cultural Intelligence
Being skilled and flexible about understanding a culture, learning more about it from your ongoing interaction with it, and gradually reshaping your thinking to be more sympathetic to the culture and to be more skilled and appropriate when interacting wit