What is verbal immediacy? How does it enhance communication?

What will be an ideal response?


- Verbal immediacy identifies and projects the speaker's feelings and makes the message more relevant to the listener. Verbal immediacy draws listeners in and involves them in the subject at hand.
- Verbal immediacy also makes the speaker appear relaxed, confident, competent, and effective. In addition, receivers tend to view messages characterized by immediacy as more similar to their own beliefs than those cast in language unrelated to the speaker, topic, or receiver.

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