Oral Communication in Context

Chapter 1 – Nature and Elements of Communication

Paralanguage Body Manipulators Affect Displays Communication Lag
Aristotles Model Illustrators Berlos Model Nonverbal Communication
Denotations Abberation Regulators Proxemics Facial Expression
Schramms Model
Contextual-Cultural Model Kinesics Emblems Connotations

_______________ 1. It refers to the meanings attach to words that are beyond the dictionary meaning.
_______________ 2. Are body expressions that illustrate the verbal language
_______________ 3. Category of nonverbal symbols involving the use of space.
_______________ 4. Commonly recognized signs that communicate a message unrelated to an ongoing conversation
_______________ 5. Movements that were originally associated with body functioning.
_______________ 6. Category of nonverbal symbols which includes volume, pitch, speaking rate, and voice quality.
_______________ 7. Body changes that conveys our internal emotional states.
_______________ 8. It refers to the basic meaning of a word.
_______________ 9. This model is the sum of ideas of feedback, context and culture, to some of the other elements of
communication.
_______________ 10. Controls verbal communications
_______________ 11. Proper acknowledgement of a response to a question or statement given within a certain length of
time and sending an appropriate response.
_______________ 12. This model is elegant, picturing the meaning-sharing process simply and graphically.
_______________ 13. The most obvious vehicle or conveyor of nonverbal communication.
_______________ 14. A message-centered communication model.
_______________ 15. Something which does not contain straight lines. It may result to communication break down.
_______________ 16. It involves your body movement, eye contact, and hand gestures.
_______________ 17. A speaker-centered communication model.

4C’s FACTOR’S INVOLVING COMMUNICATION

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 Chapter 2 – Functions of Communication
Persuasion Logos Ethos Pathos Disinterested Audience Positive Audience neutral audience
Opposed Audience Terminal Credibility Transactional Credibility Initial Credibility
Speech of Introduction Speech of Acceptance Sales Presentation Speech of Presentation
Satisfaction Step Need Step _________
______ 1. It is the listeners own thinking process.
_______________ 2. It is an audience that has a different need. They are neither for or against the topic, they simply do
not know very much about the topic.
_______________ 3. It is an audience that already agrees with your basic persuasive purpose.
_______________ 4. It is the most difficult kind of audience for a persuasive speaker.
_______________ 5. Is the receiver’s perception of a source at the completion of a communication event.
_______________ 6. A means by which one person can cause another to want to believe, to think, or to do.
_______________ 7. It is an audience that knows about the topic but couldn’t care less.
_______________ 8. Establishing your prestige. It is the way in which an audience perceives the character and
personality of the speaker.
_______________ 9. The listener’s own personal drives, needs, and desires.
_______________ 10. Primary purpose is to honor the recepient.
_______________ 11. You show your audience that they have needs no longer being met by their current brand.
_______________ 12. The source’s credibility may be reevaluated and either heightened or lowered in the receiver’s
mind.
_______________ 13. The degree of credibility perceived in the source prior to any specific communication event.
_______________ 14. You tell your listener that your brand will best satisfy those unmet needs which their current brand
is not fulfilling.
_______________ 15. Purposes of this speech is to build enthusiasm for the guest speaker by establishing his/her
credibility and to build audience interest in the guest speaker’s topic.
_______________ 16. Purpose of thanking both those bestowing the award and those who helped the recepient gain it.
5 Important Functions of Communication In a Society
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_______________ 17. Basic purpose is to sell a product or a service.
Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
 Chapter 3 – Communicative Competence
Intrapersonal Communication Values Attitudes Self-concept Solo Vocal Communication
Perception Expectations Internal Discourse External Stimuli Internal Stimuli Reception
Incubation Decoding Ideation Discrimination Regrouping Life Orientation Transmission
Encoding Feedback Intrapersonal Skills Direct Interpersonal Communication Group communication
Dyadic Communication Public Communication Conversation Mass or Public Communication
Mediated Interpersonal Communication Dialogue Interview Group Discussion Brainstorming
Buzz Sessions Committee Round-table Discussion Public Discussions

_______________ 1. One’s judgement of what is important in life.

_______________ 2. It involves thinking, concentration, and analysis.
_______________ 3. It determines how a person sees himself/herself.
_______________ 4. It is the process of talking to onself.
_______________ 5. Future-oriented message dealing with long-term roles.
_______________ 6. It determines how a person sees himself with the world.
_______________ 7. They are received from sources outside the communicator’s body.
_______________ 8. It involves speaking aloud to oneself.
_______________ 9. Learned predisposition towards or against a topic.
_______________ 10. It is the process of letting ideas “jell” in the mind and pick up the flavor or relationships
buried there.
_______________ 11. This process changes the raw stimuli into thought symbols.
_______________ 12. Are nerve impulses received by the brain as a result of the psychological state of the
body at a given instant.
_______________ 13. This interpersonal communication involves only two people.
_______________ 14. This selection process determines what stimuli are allowed to stimulate thought.
_______________ 15. This interpersonal communication involves three or more persons communicating.
_______________ 16. It is the process ofsending coded messages along a selected medium.
_______________ 17. It is the result of sum total of social, hereditary, and personal factors which have
influenced your development.
_______________ 18. Receiving messages from the responding communicator.
_______________ 19. Those skills and communications that occur within a person’s own mind.
_______________ 20. This process places the strongest and most important stimuli at the conscious level.
_______________ 21. It is the process by which the stimuli are received by the body.
_______________ 22. It is the process of thinking, planning, and organizing your thoughts.
_______________ 23. It is the final step before transmitting the message.
_______________ 24. This form of discussion group is an excellent form of small group communication when
the group is going to be a long term engagement.
_______________ 25. This form of dyadic communication is a friendly and informal talk between two people.
_______________ 26. It is the most intimate form of dyadic commmunication.
_______________ 27. This interpersonal communication involves a large group with a primarily one-way
monolog style generating only minimal feedback.
_______________ 28. This form of dicussion group is often used for decision-making.
_______________ 29. This communication involves technology that assists or links the sender and receiver of
messages.
_______________ 30. It is a critical conversation about a particular topic, or perhaps a range of topics.
_______________ 31. It is a form of communication between an entity and a large and diverse audience,
mediated by some form of technology.
_______________ 32. This discussion is a public exchange of ideas.
_______________ 33. It is a group discussion in which members attempt to develop many new ideas by
adhering to the principle of deferred judgement.
_______________ 34. It is a formal kind of communication event with a particular goal in mind.
_______________ 35. Involves a direct face-to-face relationship between the sender and receiver of a message.
_______________ 36. It is a short participative sessions that are deliberately built into a lecture or larger group
exercise in order to stimulate discussion and provide student feedback.
Coming-together Process Coming-apart process
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5 Interpersonal Skills Process of stimulating thought