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Homework Help: English: Speeches: Speech Communication
Speech communication is the aural form of transferring ideas, thoughts, instructions and/or directives utilizing the speaker's vocal cords and mouth to stimulate the air, thus causing waves of sound to strike the audible receptors of the hearer, resulting in a transformation back into mental images and/or symbols to allow the receiver to process the meaning of what has been said.
It is the second oldest form of communication on the planet. Gesturing being the primary form until language developed over time. However, some rudimentary grunts and groans most likely preceded actual speech long before basic speech came into being.
Some examples of speech communication would be:
- A mother's reassurance to her child
- The teacher's instruction to her students
- A supervisor's compliment to a worker
- The cleric's message to the spiritual believer
- A police officer's admonition to a law breaker
- The radio announcer's commercial message to the consumer
- An actor's dramatic delivery of lines to the audience
- A cheerleader's yell to the crowd
- The cashier's price check call out to store personnel
- A restaurant customer's menu order to the table server
- Lovers whispering "sweet nothings" in each other's ear
- A sporting event public address announcement to the spectators
- The owner of a pet disciplining the animal
- An auctioneer hawking the description of an item for bid
- The singer performing for screaming fans
- A physician breaking bad health news to the patient
- The politician presenting his platform to the voters
The choice of words and phrases utilized by the speaker play a secondary role in speech communication. Just as in the old saying, "It's not what you say, it's HOW you say it." The most-effective speaker is not necessarily the one who gives unending details, but the one who is capable of taking seemingly unimportant information and turning it into desirable verbal data which the listener gladly accepts.
It has been proven on more than one occasion that, a skilled presenter, can simply read telephone directory listings in a dramatic manner and "move" listeners into emotional responses through dramatic inflection, pauses, emphasis, punctuation and/or speed of delivery. This is speech communication in its purest form.
Talk is not necessarily a speech, but speech is always talk. Any method of speech which communicates a message of any type is speech communication. The quality of such communication is limited by virtue of the one creating the speech; the knowledge of the speaker; the credibility of the speaker; and/or the delivery style of the speaker.
Homework Help: English: Speeches
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