Examples of meaning in the following topics:
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- Rising Intonation means the pitch of the voice rises over time [↗];
- Make sure to vary the speech as you speak to show emphasis and change in meaning.
- Practice saying sentences with different intonation patterns to change the meaning.
- Try for example, "See what I mean," and "See what I mean?
- Define pitch and describe how pitch changes can change the meaning of sentences
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- The understanding stage is the stage during which the listener determines the context and meanings of the words that are heard.
- Understanding or comprehension is "shared meaning between parties in a communication transaction" and constitutes the first step in the listening process.
- This is the stage during which the listener determines the context and meanings of the words he or she hears.
- Determining the context and meaning of individual words, as well as assigning meaning in language, is essential to understanding sentences.
- One tactic for better understanding a speaker's meaning is to ask questions.
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- The key to the persuasive use of statistics is extracting meaning and patterns from raw data in a way that is logical and demonstrable to an audience.
- Statistics is a topic that many people prefer to avoid, so when presenting statistical idea or even using numbers in your speech be sure to thoroughly explain what the numbers mean and use visual aids to help you explain.
- Results from a survey and discussion of key findings such as the mean, median, and mode of that survey.
- A common misunderstanding when using statistics is "correlation does not mean causation. " This means that just because two variables are related, they do not necessarily mean that one variable causes the other variable to occur.
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- Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and instilling moral values.
- Storytelling is a powerful tool, a means for sharing experiences and knowledge.
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- The sounds we hear have no meaning until we give them their meaning in context.
- Listening is an active process that constructs meaning from both verbal and nonverbal messages.
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- This doesn't mean that your speech is laced with cryptic clues for your audience to determine the meaning and purpose, rather, it gives you a way to think about your speech in a new light.
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- The ability to simplify experiences with a word makes it easier to communicate, but it also makes us lose the connection to the specific meaning that we want to convey through the abstract wording.
- Concrete words help your audience understand precisely what you mean.
- If you say that you want to produce television shows for a younger demographic segment, they won't know whether you mean teenagers or toddlers.
- If you say that you study natural phenomena, your audience won't know whether you mean volcanic eruptions or the migrations of monarch butterflies.
- With audiences who understand the abstractions, the technical meanings can communicate messages economically with fewer words than if you started with specific instances at the bottom of the abstraction ladder.
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- In addition to these other methods of finding and selecting the right topic, brainstorming is an effective means for generating potential speech topics.
- Lightning during a brainstorm is a good thing: it means ideas are being generated!
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- Because of this, you would want to tailor the complexity of the speech to match the knowledge that the audience already possesses, meaning that the speech could contain lots of technical terms with little explanation because the audience will already understand what those terms mean.
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- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
- Aristotle argues that establishing good character is one of the most important means of persuasion.