What are the purposes of a keynote speech? Why should a keynote speech strive to be multivocal?
What will be an ideal response?
- The keynote speech draws together and defines the diverse members of the audience, bringing them together as a community.
- The keynote speech helps to set the thematic elements of the meeting, such as topics and issues that will dominate the meeting.
- A keynote speech should be multivocal or capable of being heard in positive, but different ways by different listeners.
- Polysemic messages are multivocal because they have different dimensions that affect people in various ways.
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summation, the challenge, and the call for action. What will be an ideal response?
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a. Approval b. Certainty c. Admiration d. Control
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. explicit b. implicit c. content d. relational