Discuss the differences between sex and gender. How can you use this knowledge in an audience analysis?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Sex is the biological male or female designation of an audience member. Gender is the culturally constructed and psychologically-based perception of one’s self as feminine or masculine, and can fall anywhere along a continuum from female to male. Use of this knowledge provides a speaker with clues about the listeners, creating a clearer understanding of the demographic to which they are speaking. This in turn helps a speaker to develop and clear and effective message.
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The sign of an intelligent, well-educated person in ancient Rome
was the ability to speak A. Egyptian. B. Indo-European. C. Greek. D. Latin. E. Aramaic.
______ occurs when members of one culture try to impose their ways of thinking or behaving on another culture.
a. Culture clash b. Culture war c. Cultural bias d. Cultural imperialism
What characteristic of effective public speaking is at the
core of being audience-centered? a. ethos b. identity knowledge c. identification d. organization