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Your Audience & Speaking Environment

Your Audience & Speaking Environment. Chapter 5. Audience. A complex & varied group of people the speaker addresses. Audience Centered. To acknowledge the audience considering unique, diverse & common perspectives before, during & after the speech. Consider Interactive Activity 5.4:

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Your Audience & Speaking Environment

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  1. Your Audience & SpeakingEnvironment Chapter 5

  2. Audience A complex & varied group of people the speaker addresses

  3. Audience Centered • To acknowledge the audience considering unique, diverse & common perspectives before, during & after the speech Consider Interactive Activity 5.4: Acknowledging Expectations of the Speaker online at the Invitation to Public Speaking website.

  4. Master Statuses • Positions occupied by a person in society that affect the person’s identity • Culture • Race • Sex / Gender • Age • Economic standing • Religion

  5. Standpoint • The perspective from which a person views & evaluates society

  6. Attitude • A general positive or negative feeling a person has about something

  7. Belief • A person’s idea of what is real or true or not

  8. Value • A person’s idea of what is good, worthy, or important

  9. Ethnocentrism • The belief that our own cultural perspectives, norms & ways of organizing society are superior to others

  10. Understand your audience & situation • Demographically • Situationally (Speaking Environment)

  11. Factors of Demographic Audience Analysis • Age • Gender • Sexual orientation • Racial, ethnic, and cultural background • Religion • Group membership

  12. Getting Information about the Audience • Interviewing • Questionnaires • Open ended questions • Closed ended questions

  13. Factors of Situational Audience Analysis • Audience size • Physical arrangement • Technology • Temporal factors • Time of day • Speaking order • Speech length

  14. Topics Main points Support Organization Language Credibility Style & delivery Audience analysis influences

  15. Adapting toAudience Expectations • The form of a speech • The speaker • Speaker-audience interaction

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