TR 150 in 15 minutes
Most of my information has come from TR 150: Voice and Speech, which I took last spring
my idea for the presentation came from this quote fro the Elbow essay:
"When we speak, listeners don't just hear our words, they see us-how we hold and move ourselves. Even if we only hear someone over the phone or on the radio-perhaps even someon e we've ner met-still we experience the texture of her talk: the rhythms, emphases, hesitations, and other tonalities of sppech which give us a dramatized sense of her character or personality." 138
I spent almost 4 pages this past weekend writing about the problems with the written word. Now I am going to pseak upon problems associated with speech.
Much of communication is not what was said, but how it was said. Communication is the symblic process of sharing meanings. What can interrupt and distort that message is noise. Noise has commonly been known as a loud distracting sound, but noise is actually any barrier to communication. Noise can occur in the listener, speaker, and externally.
External noise:
The noise may be acoustic (sound), which does block out speech and hearing. But there are visual noises too.
A tree leaf that falls outside the window, a feather floating near the air vent: these are alos noises.
Noises can also be temperature changes. We have all sat in a cold classroom (*cough EL336 *cough) and been distracted from the material being discussed.
Listener generated noise:
All facotrs you bring to the communication scenario affect the way you listen, undertsand, and integrate what ther person is saying to you. How do you feel about the speaker? Do you admire or abhore them? Chances are you will not accept/agree with what the person said if you don't at least respect them. How do you feel about the way they speak? Does that particular accent or way of pronouncing words turn you off?
Speaker generated noise:
we convey meaning in the loudness of our voice, how rapidly/slowly we speak, the way we use silence, the range of vocal pitches, and our vocal qualities, We also express a great deal of meaning by the way we move, stand, gesture, and position our bodies.
other noises:
there is such a thing as linguistic noise. Faulty grammar/syntax, incorrect word choices, or faulty production of the sounds that make up words.
The lips, teeth, vocal flods, hard/soft palate, and the alveolar ridge (gum ridge) are the articulators , the speech organs. Problems with the articulators cause proninciation problems. this is hwere the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) comes in handy. It is another alphabet consisting of all the sounds made in words, witht descriptions as to the locations of articulation. IPA will be explored in depth in class tomorrow.
Improper accents or mispronunciations in words make us sound uneducated and unprofessional. this is why so many buisness men have to take speaking classes. In may universities, voice and speech is part of the required ciriculum. The reason voice and speech is a theater class is thus: no one is going to believe you are a 17th century british gentleman or a russian prostitute if you sound like Joe Pesci or Marisa Tomei. once aware of the way you speak, IPA can teach you how to correct your speech for different accents.
my idea for the presentation came from this quote fro the Elbow essay:
"When we speak, listeners don't just hear our words, they see us-how we hold and move ourselves. Even if we only hear someone over the phone or on the radio-perhaps even someon e we've ner met-still we experience the texture of her talk: the rhythms, emphases, hesitations, and other tonalities of sppech which give us a dramatized sense of her character or personality." 138
I spent almost 4 pages this past weekend writing about the problems with the written word. Now I am going to pseak upon problems associated with speech.
Much of communication is not what was said, but how it was said. Communication is the symblic process of sharing meanings. What can interrupt and distort that message is noise. Noise has commonly been known as a loud distracting sound, but noise is actually any barrier to communication. Noise can occur in the listener, speaker, and externally.
External noise:
The noise may be acoustic (sound), which does block out speech and hearing. But there are visual noises too.
A tree leaf that falls outside the window, a feather floating near the air vent: these are alos noises.
Noises can also be temperature changes. We have all sat in a cold classroom (*cough EL336 *cough) and been distracted from the material being discussed.
Listener generated noise:
All facotrs you bring to the communication scenario affect the way you listen, undertsand, and integrate what ther person is saying to you. How do you feel about the speaker? Do you admire or abhore them? Chances are you will not accept/agree with what the person said if you don't at least respect them. How do you feel about the way they speak? Does that particular accent or way of pronouncing words turn you off?
Speaker generated noise:
we convey meaning in the loudness of our voice, how rapidly/slowly we speak, the way we use silence, the range of vocal pitches, and our vocal qualities, We also express a great deal of meaning by the way we move, stand, gesture, and position our bodies.
other noises:
there is such a thing as linguistic noise. Faulty grammar/syntax, incorrect word choices, or faulty production of the sounds that make up words.
The lips, teeth, vocal flods, hard/soft palate, and the alveolar ridge (gum ridge) are the articulators , the speech organs. Problems with the articulators cause proninciation problems. this is hwere the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) comes in handy. It is another alphabet consisting of all the sounds made in words, witht descriptions as to the locations of articulation. IPA will be explored in depth in class tomorrow.
Improper accents or mispronunciations in words make us sound uneducated and unprofessional. this is why so many buisness men have to take speaking classes. In may universities, voice and speech is part of the required ciriculum. The reason voice and speech is a theater class is thus: no one is going to believe you are a 17th century british gentleman or a russian prostitute if you sound like Joe Pesci or Marisa Tomei. once aware of the way you speak, IPA can teach you how to correct your speech for different accents.
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David Cristello on TR 150 in 15 minutes: body language has a huge impac
Stormy Knight on TR 150 in 15 minutes: Dani, I wrote about this topi
Kayla Sawyer on TR 150 in 15 minutes: Yes, the advantage of body lan
Jeremy Barrick on TR 150 in 15 minutes: Body language definitely gives
Stormy Knight on TR 150 in 15 minutes: Dani, I wrote about this topi
Kayla Sawyer on TR 150 in 15 minutes: Yes, the advantage of body lan
Jeremy Barrick on TR 150 in 15 minutes: Body language definitely gives
Body language definitely gives way to how others speak. If we see someone, from a distance, throwing their hand in the air, we may assume that they are arguing with the other person. Such a strange thing to think about, instead of the physical speech, we look at movement and gestures for signs of speech.
Yes, the advantage of body language isn't often discussed in our texts.
Dani,
I wrote about this topic for exercise two. One of my main points supporting speech was the fact that we do get to see body language and that helps us to further understand what a person's words can only convey to a certain extent. Like text, speech would be less emotional without body language and facial expressions.
body language has a huge impact on the audience, and its the presenters objective to understand such gestures and use them to their advantage.