Rhetorical Analysis Of Cudd's Speech

In June of 2012 Cuddy started off her speech Your Body Language Shapes Who You are at TEDGlobal with an attention grabbing statement, and then asked her audience to survey their own posture. A good presenter always starts their speech off with an attention grabbing statement, quote or story (Koegel, 43). By physically engaging her audience at the beginning of her speech she was able to immediately capture their attention. I did not hear an exact purpose statement from Cuddy within the first five minutes of her speech, but she did make a credibility statement. Cuddy claimed that she was a credible source of information because she was a social physiologist, and taught at a competitive business school. However she did not say where she obtained her degree, or where she taught until later in the speech. Roughly ten minutes into the speech Cuddy explained where she sourced her information from. The source was an experiment that she conducted. If she had explained where her information was sourced from at the beginning of the speech, then it would have kept her audience from wondering. Explaining where you sourced your information from at the beginning of your speech adds credibility to your presentation, and it quiets the mind any possible skeptics that are lurking in the audience. Throughout any given presentation or paper honesty is …show more content…
The sniffling and snorting could have been caused by an illness, but it could have also been a result of increased respiration from speech anxiety. Speech anxiety is the fear of public speaking, and it comes in two forms. Dysfunctional speech anxiety causes our flight or fight mode to activate, and prevents us from giving a speech (Rothwell, 23). Functional speech anxiety is also a result of the flight or fight modes activation, but it does not prevent us from giving our speech. Increased respiration is one of many physiological symptoms of speech