How does cultural diversity present a strategic challenge to speakers? How can speakers adapt to
culturally diverse audiences?
What will be an ideal response?
1. Speakers must address audiences with different beliefs and values, including different values
for age v. tradition, the roles of women, and the proper use of language. 2. Speakers should use examples
from many cultures, refer to their own culture in such a way as to emphasize cultural differences as a
positive value, or resist culture-specific references altogether.
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Identify and describe five different types of presentation aids.
What will be an ideal response?
A car salesperson using the term flea to identify a person looking for a bargain, and prisoners using the term shank to refer to a knife, are examples of
A) denotative meanings. B) jargon. C) bypassing. D) polarization. E) slang.
What tasks are performed in the starting stage of
informative speaking? What will be an ideal response?
Given any typical day, how often does a person communicate?
a. roughly 15-20 times a day b. continually throughout the day c. less than 5 times a day d. roughly 100-200 times a day e. roughly 200-300 times a day