Week 1 Speech Vocabulary

The feelings, attitudes, and beliefs of individual audience members that affect how your speech message is perceived.

• Historical setting

• Physical setting

• Speaking expressively

• Psychological setting

Events that have already occurred that are related to your speech topic, to you as a speaker, to previous speeches given by you with which audience members are familiar, or to other encounters that audience members have had with you.

• Historical setting

• Speaker

• Cultural Setting

• Physical Setting

The values, beliefs, meanings, and social mores of specific groups of people to which your audience members belong.

• Psychological setting

• Microstructure

• Cultural setting

• Speaking expressively

The overall framework you use to organize your speech content.

• Macrostructure

• Audience

• Historical setting

• Speaking conversationally

The source or originator of the speech.

• Audience

• Speaker

• Cultural setting

• Microstructure

Using various vocal techniques so you sound a bit more dramatic than you would in casual conversation.

• Speaking expressively

• Speaking conversationally

• Audience

• Speaker

The specific language and style choices you use as you frame your ideas and verbalize them to your audience.

• Macrostructure

• Physical Setting

• Audience

• Microstructure

The specific group of people to whom the speech is directed.

• Speaker

• Physical Setting

• Audience

• Psychological setting

The location, size of room, seating arrangement, distance between audience and speaker, time of day, room temperature, and lighting.

• Historical Setting

• Speaking expressively

• Audience

• Physical Setting

Sounding as though you are having a spontaneous conversation with your audience rather than simply reading to them or performing in front of them.

• Speaking conversationally

• Cultural setting

• Macrostructure

• Speaking expressively