COMS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnocentrism, Formal Language
7 Sep 2016
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Effective communications is important for jobs: be passionate, enthusiastic. Means for civic engagement: make audience like a topic you like. Public speaking requires a different method of delivery. Speaker: the person who is presenting an oral message to a listener. Message: whatever a speaker communicates to someone else: edward d. hall: encoded and decoded messages don"t always align a. i. a. ii. Listener: the person who receives the speaker"s message. Channel: the means by which a message is communicated. Feedback: the messages, usually nonverbal, sent from a listener to a speaker. Interference: anything that impedes the communication of a message, can be internal or external to listeners. Frame of reference: the sum of a person"s knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes; no two people can have exactly the same frame of reference. Situation: the time and place in which speech communication occurs. Channel nerves into positive nervousness: make jokes, turn it into excitement, acquire speaking experience, prepare.
