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17 Cards in this Set
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Appreciative listening
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Listening that involves obtaining sensory stimulation or enjoyment from others
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Audience
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The individuals who listen to a public speech
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Audience diversity
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The cultural, demographic, and individual characteristics that vary among audience members
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Channel
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The physical medium through which communication occurs
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Connotative meanings
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The secondary meaning of a word, often with a strong emotional, and subjective component
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Credibility
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The degree to which an audience trusts and believes in a speaker
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Cultural diversity
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Differences among people in terms of beliefs, customs, and values-in a sense, their worldview
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Demographics
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Basic and vital data regarding any population
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Empathic listening
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Listening for the purpose of understanding and relating to the origins of a speaker's thinking and feelings
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Extemporaneous delivery
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A mode of presentation that combines careful preparation with spontaneous speaking. The speaker generally uses brief notes rather than a full manuscript or an outline
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Feedback
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Audience member responses, both verbal and nonverbal, to a speaker
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Individual diversity
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How individuals in an audience differ in terms of knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, values, motives, expectations, and needs
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Main points
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The key ideas that support the thesis statement of a speech
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Message
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The meaning produced by communicators
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Plagiarism
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Using the ideas of others and presenting them as your own
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Rhetorical Situation
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A natural context of persons, events, objjects, relations, and an exigence which strongly invites utterance
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Thesis of speech
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A single declarative sentence that forcuses the audience's attention on the central point of a speech
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