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Understanding Speech Styles and Communication

The document outlines various speech styles, including intimate, casual, consultative, formal, and frozen, along with their characteristics and contexts of use. It also discusses speech acts, intercultural communication, and the importance of understanding cultural differences in effective communication. Additionally, it describes different types of speeches according to purpose, such as expository, persuasive, motivational, instructional, and entertaining, along with tips for effective delivery.

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Understanding Speech Styles and Communication

The document outlines various speech styles, including intimate, casual, consultative, formal, and frozen, along with their characteristics and contexts of use. It also discusses speech acts, intercultural communication, and the importance of understanding cultural differences in effective communication. Additionally, it describes different types of speeches according to purpose, such as expository, persuasive, motivational, instructional, and entertaining, along with tips for effective delivery.

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Speech Styles Perlocutionary Act

- Form of language - The effect of an utterance on the listener


- It can be oral or written - Perception
- The way we adjust our language - How the listener understand what the speaker
depending in the circumstances, people, has been said
environment
Assertive
The arrangement of the speech styles is the degree of
formality - Statements that convey factual
information
1. Intimate - These are statements or assertions that convey
- Occurs between 2 persons or more who information or describe the world, aiming to
are very close to each other represent reality.
- Endearment /call signs
- Usually full of personal or private 2. Directive
language, often shared only between very  You want other people to do something
close individuals. for you
2. Casual/informal style  Requests or commands
- Is appropriate for spontaneous
conversations in formal settings 3. Commissive
- Happens when two or more who are
friends but doesn't really close  Promises
- Vulgar words  Acts that commit the speaker to a certain
- Oral or written course of action
3. Consultative style 4. Expressive
- Occurs when seeking advice
- Typically used in professional settings,  Statements that express feelings or
such as when a teacher gives a lecture emotions
- Two persons or more who are stranger to
5. Declaration
each other
4. Formal  Acts that change the state of affairs by
- The way we talk or act is formal being uttered
- Oral: Wedding, sona’s, conference
- Written: Resume Intercultural communication
5. Frozen
- Happens when individual interact
- Fixed speech
- Exchange of messages between
- Does not change
individuals from different cultural
- It takes time to change/ it is not easy
backgrounds
to change fixed speech
- Ex. Announcements (does not require Why do cultures differ?
feedback)
- Often used in legal documents and - History
ceremonies like weddings - Educational Background

Speech Acts - Social Backgrounds


- Ethnic
- Refers to the different function we want others
to do - Religion
- The way we adjust our language - Ecology
- Technology
Locutionary Act
Types of Cultural Communication
- The literal meaning of what is said
- Cross Cultural Communication
Illocutionary Act
- International Communication
- An act performed by saying something
- Multi Cultural Communication
(e.g promising)
- Intercultural Communication
- Intended meaning (double meaning)
- Techniques that we use to make sure that
there are efficient and effective way of
transferring information
- Means of sharing information to achieve
linguistic purpose
What is Intercultural Communication?

- This refers to the effective communication


between people/workers/clients of different 7 types of communicative strategies
cultural background. It also includes managing 1. Nomination
thought pattern and non verbal - Initiate conversation by asking question
communication. - Introducing a new subject into the
Need for International Communication: conversation
- opening a topic
- Success of any international business 2. Restriction
- Allows workers from different cultures to - Limit or restricitin
work together as a group - Limiting the discussion to a specific
aspect of a subject
- Worldwide marketing campaign
- Setting boundary
- An increase in international business
3. Turn taking
Two Trends of Intercultural Communication: - Wherein it allows both participant to
engage to a conversation
1. Globalization - Knowing when to talk depends on
2. Multicultural workforce watching
out for the verbal and nonverbal cues
Globalization
4. Topic control
- refers to the reduction and removal of - Manipulative communication in order
barriers between national borders in order to to maintain the flow of conversation
facilitate the flow of goods, capital, services - Is when to stick to the topic through
and labor. ou the discussion
5. Topic shifting
Multicultural workforce - moving to a particular topic
- intentionally or unintentionally changes
- refers to the changing age, gender,
the
ethnicity, physical ability, and race of
direction of the flow of the ideas in a
employees across all types a
conversation
Impact of Globalization
6. Repair
 Business sector
- Correction of the utterance
 Film industry - Act of fixing the violations
 Tourism Industry
7. Termination
 Sports
 used to end the conversation
Do’s Of Intercultural Communication
SPEECH PURPOSE AND DELIVERY
- Avoid assumptions, jokes which are
misunderstood SPEECH ACCORDING TO PURPOSE
- Avoid using slang and idioms
- Investigate their culture’s perception - We communicate for different
- Take cultural and local differences into account reasons/purposes; we communicate to
express ourselves; we communicate to
Don'ts Of Intercultural Communication provide information; we communicate to ask
some explanations and many other
- Using the same approach
reasons. These purposes are called Goals
- Letting cultural differences become a source of
of Speech
conflict that hinder the process or work.
TYPES OF SPEECHES ACCORDING TO PURPOSE:
Communicative Strategies
1.EXPOSITORY SPEECH
- Conveying their intended meaning
- the purpose of this speech is to explain TIPS IN DELIVERING AN PERSUASIVE SPEECH:
information. This speech also shows a process, a
concept, or a set of facts. - Be passionate but not angry in your delivery.
- The structure of your speech is crucial.
Examples of this are the following: - Do not forget the eye contact.

1.Academic report/presentations 4.MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

2.Business proposals/meetings/conferences - this is used when you want to deliver a speech


intended to motivate or inspire an audience.
3.Awareness campaigns

TIPS IN DELIVERING AN EXPOSITORY SPEECH:


Examples:
1.Maintain a cool, dignified aura throughout the
speech. 1.Graduation speech

2.At well-chosen points, however, you may insert some 2.Retreat/recollection


humor just to break the monotony of seriousness.
5.INSTRUCTIONAL SPEECH
3.Stress words properly.
- used when you want to teach your audience
2. ENTERTAINING SPEECH how to complete a task (or process), and this is
largely accomplished by demonstrating the task (or
- the purpose is not only to tell a series of jokes process) through a series of steps.
but to make the audience smile or feel
lighthearted. The skills that you must emphasize in Example:
this speech are your skills to describe and narrate. In
an entertaining speech, you must creatively portray 1.Lecture on how to prevent infections from covid-19.
details and weave stories to evoke emotions in your
audience.
SPEECH DELIVERY
Examples:
- Refers to the presentation of the speech.
1.Recital - Delivery is important, of course, because
2.Stand-up comedy performances it is what is most immediate to the
audience.
3.After-dinner speeches
TYPES OF SPEECH DELIVERY:
TIPS IN DELIVERING AN ENTERTAINING SPEECH:
1.MEMORIZED
1.Be loose and flexible in your performance.
- favorable certain reasons.
2.Adjust your volume and intonation appropriately.
- There is a definite direction for you to go.
3.Use nonverbal communication effectively.
- You have time to prepare.
3.PERSUASIVE SPEECH
On the other hand, this can also turn
- this is used when we want to convince other unfavorable because of the following reasons:
people, when we want them to believe in what
we believe and to take the course of action that 1.There is tremendous pressure on your ability to recall
we would have them to do. To deliver this kind of your speech.
speech, you must achieve a harmony of excellent 2.There are also high expectations on your delivery.
content and strong delivery (meaning to say, you
must be knowledgeable and have a strong convincing 2.MANUSCRIPT
power) to appeal to their reasoning and to
convince them that our proposal is sensible - Is a written text read to an audience from a paper
or teleprompter.
Examples:
3.EXTEMPORANEOUS
1.Sales and marketing presentations
- limited-preparation speech
2.Debate
- Delivered with the help of short notes and a
3.Campaign clear outline.
4.IMPROMPTU

- Delivered without any preparation.

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