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| The practice of oratory, or public speaking. More broadly, the term has multiple meanings, all of which relate to an aspect of human communication. |
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| In classical terms, the art of public speaking |
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| In ancient Greece, a public square or marketplace. |
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| In ancient Rome, a public space in which people gathered to deliberate about the issues of the day |
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| Any space (physical or virtual) in which people gather to voice their ideas about public issues |
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| In ancient Greece, a public space in which people gathered to deliberate about the issues of the day. |
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| In ancient Greece, speech addressing legislative or political policy issues |
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| In ancient Greece, speech addressing special occasions, such as celebrations and funerals |
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| A classical approach to speechmaking in which the speaker divides a speech into five parts: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery |
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| The classical rhetorical term you will use to make your case to an audience one of the five canons of rhetoric. |
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| (of the speech) The strategic process of deciding how to order speech points into a coherent and convincing pattern for your topic and audience. |
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| The specific word choices and rhetorical devices (techniques of language) speakers use to express their ideas and achieve their speech purpose |
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| The vocal and nonverbal behavior that a speaker uses in a public speech; one of the five canons of rhetoric. |
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| The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next |
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| The willingness to learn about other cultures and gradually reshape your thinking and behavior in response to what you've learned. |
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| Communication between two people, as in a conversation. |
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| Small Group Communication |
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| Communication involving a small number of people who can see and speak directly with one another, as in a business meeting. |
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| Communication that occurs between a speaker and a large audience of unknown people. The receivers of the message are not present with the speaker, or they are part of such an immense crowd that there can be little or no interaction between speaker and listeners. TV, news broadcasts, mass rallies |
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| A type of communication in which the speaker delivers a message with a specific purpose to an audience of people who are physically present during the delivery of the speech. Public speaking always includes a speaker who has a reason for speaking, an audience that gives the speaker its attention, and a message that is meant to accomplish a purpose |
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| The source, or sender, is the person who creates a message. The speaker transforms ideas and thoughts into messages and sends them into a receiver, or an audience |
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| The process of organizing a message, choosing words and sentence structure, and verbalizing the message |
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| The recipient (an individual or a group) of a source's message. |
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| The process of interpreting a message |
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| The content of the communication process-thoughts and ideas put into meaningful expressions, A message can be expressed both verbally (through the sentences and points of a speech) and nonverbally (through eye contact, body language, and gestures). |
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| The medium through which the speaker sends a message (i.e., sound waves, air waves, and electronic transmission). |
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| Anything that interferes with the communication process between a speaker and an audience, so that the message cannot be understood noise can derive from external sources in the environment or from internal psychological factors |
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| The mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience |
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| The circumstances that call for a public response and for the speech itself; in broad terms, consideration of the audience, occasion, and overall speech situation when planning a speech |
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| Audience-centered Persepctives |
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| An approach to speech preparation in which ease phase of the speech preparation process-from selection and treatment of the speech to making decisions about organization, language, and method of delivery - is geared toward communicating a meaningful message to an audience |
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