What Are Speech Contexts?

Topics under this unit:

1. What Are Speech Contexts?

2. Intrapersonal Speech Context

3. Interpersonal Speech Context

4. Public Communication

Fill in the Blank

_________ refers to the situation or environment and the circumstances in which communication occurs.

Fill in the Blank

_________ communication occurs mostly in a workplace or in an organized environment.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not true?

• Learning about the different speech contexts will help you make use of elaborate hand gestures in communicating.

• Learning about the different speech contexts will allow you to understand how the speech context affects the message.

• Learning about the different speech contexts will help you respond appropriately in each of the contexts.

• Learning about the different speech contexts will help you tailor your verbal and nonverbal cues to the situation.

Multiple Choice

Chatting with a friend and greeting someone “good morning” are examples of _________.

• the number of participants

• formal communication

• channels used for communication

• informal communication

Multiple Select

Mark met up with four of his classmates to talk about the group project they were working on. At first, they had a difficult time understanding one another because they were all talking at the same time. Which two of the following characteristics most affect the message in this situation?

• number of participants

• physical proximity of participants in relation with one another

• the channel used for the communication

• the immediacy of the exchange