Speech act

His use of rhetoric is enough to persuade his followers, incorporating both figures of speech and compositional techniques. By repeating “I Have a Dream” and other thematic phrases, he increases the rhetorical effect and emphasizes patterns. Figurative language highlights two important, yet distinct concepts. For example, he uses “lonely…

I cannot believe that is has already been four weeks—four weeks of constant arduous work that keeps expanding my mind in dimensions I have never sought for before. This past week, it was the dimension of speech writing, the layer I have never thought I would be able to achieve because I am a terrible writer… Initially, I planned on writing about slavery as if I lived in the 19th century as a slave owner coming to a realization of how slaves impede the growth of this country morally.…

During the speech my heart was pounding and racing out of control and the palm of my hands sweated nonstop. My speech during that night was disjointed, lacked consistent flow and a sense of confidence. I communicated to the instructor of how extremely nervous I was. I had a sense of fear that suddenly came over me before and during my speech. The instructor than advised me to change the context of my relationship to nervousness…

Viewing yourself speaking on video is never a particularly good experience, at least for me, because you notice all of the things you don’t notice when you were in the act of speaking or doing whatever was being filmed. However, watching yourself is a good way to notice your strengths and weaknesses as a public speaker. I know that I tend to look at myself more critically when I watch the recordings, but it was also interesting to see what I did and what I should change/keep the same for the…

In my speech one, I used the chronological strategy. The chronological strategy is used when a speaker is describing the history of an event or to instruct how to go about doing a task (Ford-Brown, 2014, p.315). During my first speech, I spoke about the life of Temple Grandin, and why her life made her my hero. The audience can tell I use this strategy because I first start with her birth. I go through all of the adversity and accomplishments she has had throughout her life. I then finish with…

less successful, there will be apparent disagreement about whether the intention or interpretation of the speech act is more important. Standing and placing your hand on your heart during the national anthem is a patriotic act learned at a…

Communication is widely defined as the act of expressing feelings, ideas, or thoughts to someone else. We know the significance of expressing ourselves but it is often more important the effectiveness in which you do so. How we often avoid getting picked on in class or even asking questions, unsure of how effective you are in delivering your message across. How we are usually confronted with formal presentations where you feel your anxiety rushing through your veins, consuming you, little by…

vary in number from 5 to 100, presenting awards in front of 300 people, and teaching public speaking classes to my staff and as a volunteer teaching public speaking to at risk high school students. From this experience, I have learned how to write a speech, the importance of knowing my audience, overcoming nervousness, different tactics for various size audience and different presentation styles, and effective use of PowerPoint. For documentation, I am including a picture of me presenting an…

The concept of speech act was firstly introduced by the British philosopher John L. Austin in a lecture delivered at Harvard in 1955, later published as a monograph titled “How to do things with words” in (1962). This concept captures an important feature of language: saying something can also involve doing something. Austin differentiates between two separate parts of speech: constatives and performative. Constatives are sentences that describe something as true or false, and performatives are…

Perform the speech just as I showed you, clearly and smoothly. If you want to speak louder as bad actors usually do, I might willingly look for a newscaster to read the lines for me. Don’t overuse too many hand gestures; just do as few as possible, moderately, like this. If a powerful tempest of passion comes on you while you are on stage, keep your emotions moderate and smooth. I deeply hate a wig wearing, a bombastic actor that tears a passion into shreds, bursting everyone’s ears to impress…