SPC 2608 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Quintilian, Declamation, Franklin D. Roosevelt

• School: USF
• Department: Speech Communication
• Course: SPC 2608
• Professor: N. Riggs

Document Summary

Interaction: feedback, audience centered: picking up expressions, and adjusting, context, environment of situation in which the speech occurs, (time, place, expectations, traditions) Transition: public speaking as a simultaneous process, how the audience responds to messages. Rhetoric: the use of words and symbols to achieve a goal. Golden age: the art of rhetoric by aristotle sets guidelines for speakers, roman orators: cicero & quintilian, clergy: martin luther"s articles of faith. Political oratory (19 & 20 century: speaking for political rights, declamation- delivery of an already famous speech, elocution- expression of emotion through posture, movement, gesture, facial expressions, and voice. Technological age: a date which will live in infamy - franklin roosevelt (pearl harbor, i have a dream -martin luther king. Understanding nervousness insight: average, insensitive, inflexible, confrontational. General purpose: overarching goal of your speech, three types, to inform, teach, define, illustrate, clarify, or elaborate on a topic, class lectures, seminars, workshops, to persuade, change or reinforce listener"s attitudes.