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Oral Communication
Oral Communication
**Intrapersonal Communication:**
- Refers to the internal dialogue and self-talk within an individual's mind.
- Involves reflection, thoughts, emotions, and information processing by a single
person.
**Interpersonal Communication:**
- Involves the exchange of information, feelings, and meaning between two or more
individuals.
- Occurs in a personal, direct manner and includes verbal and non-verbal
communication between people.
**Dyadic Communication:**
- Interaction between two individuals.
- A direct, one-on-one form of communication involving active engagement and
exchange of information, ideas, emotions, or thoughts.
**Public Communication:**
- Involves a single person or a group of speakers addressing a large audience.
- A one-way form of communication where the speaker(s) convey information, ideas,
or messages to a larger group, such as in speeches, lectures, or presentations.
**Mass Communication:**
- Involves the transmission of information to a wide audience through mass media
channels.
- Typically one-to-many communication that reaches a large and diverse group of
people through mediums like television, radio, newspapers, the internet, etc.
2. **Casual Style:** Relaxed and friendly in tone, less formal than intimate style,
used in everyday interactions among acquaintances or colleagues in informal
settings.
**Indirect Speech Act:** Occurs when there's an indirect relationship between the
form and function of an utterance.
**Performatives:**
- **Declaration:** Bringing about a change in the external situation. (e.g., "You
are fired!")
- **Commisive:** Committing the speaker to do something in the future. (e.g., "I'm
going to Paris tomorrow.")
- **Directive:** Aiming to make someone else do something desired by the speaker.
(e.g., "Could you close the window?")
- **Expressive:** Expressing the speaker's emotional state. (e.g., "I am sorry that
I lied to you.")
- **Assertive:** Stating facts or representing reality. (e.g., "No one makes a
better cake than me.")