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The Speech Situation is a term worn with age in the teaching of
public speaking in America. That it is comprised of occasion,
speaker, and topic is a gross oversimplification. It also includes
challenge, anxiety, emotion, fear, responsibility, faults of
memory, and instants of pride. Out of the circumstances arise an
increase in heart rate, a change in blood pressure, an abnormal
pattern of breathing, a noticeable build up in perspiration, and an
ongoing evaluation. For students this may be merely a grade or
perhaps a series of evaluative remarks, possibly addressed both to
the speaker and the other participants, the audience. It may entail
a replaying of a record of the speech, indeed a videotape. Most
important is the lasting impression that remains with all of the
participants. What of the vocabulary of the speaker under the
circumstances of the speech situation? This speaker - in the major
portions of this work we may say, "this young man" - has spent time
seeking an appropriate topic. He has outlined a composition around
a central idea or thesis. He has marshaled evidence, details. He
has framed an opening paragraph. He has been admonished not to give
an essay, but to strive for audience contact, interpersonal
communication. He makes his audible approach through his vocabulary
and accompanying phonology. Under the tension, the speaker repeats;
he adds meaningless vocalizations in periods that might logically
be pauses. There are slips of the tongue. At worst, failing, he
withdraws to await another day."
The Speech Situation is a term worn with age in the teaching of
public speaking in America. That it is comprised of occasion,
speaker, and topic is a gross oversimplification. It also includes
challenge, anxiety, emotion, fear, responsibility, faults of
memory, and instants of pride. Out of the circumstances arise an
increase in heart rate, a change in blood pressure, an abnormal
pattern of breathing, a noticeable build up in perspiration, and an
ongoing evaluation. For students this may be merely a grade or
perhaps a series of evaluative remarks, possibly addressed both to
the speaker and the other participants, the audience. It may entail
a replaying of a record of the speech, indeed a videotape. Most
important is the lasting impression that remains with all of the
participants. What of the vocabulary of the speaker under the
circumstances of the speech situation? This speaker - in the major
portions of this work we may say, "this young man" - has spent time
seeking an appropriate topic. He has outlined a composition around
a central idea or thesis. He has marshaled evidence, details. He
has framed an opening paragraph. He has been admonished not to give
an essay, but to strive for audience contact, interpersonal
communication. He makes his audible approach through his vocabulary
and accompanying phonology. Under the tension, the speaker repeats;
he adds meaningless vocalizations in periods that might logically
be pauses. There are slips of the tongue. At worst, failing, he
withdraws to await another day."
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