Describe three ways to best adapt your language style to diverse listeners
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Answers should include using understandable language, including incorporating Standard American English for your audience’s needs; using respectful language (avoids language that could be offensive to people of particular ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds or sexual orientations; women; or people with disabilities. The speaker’s language should not defame any group or be considered offensive or risqué); and using unbiased language (such as using the pronouns his or her or referring to a fireman as a firefighter).
You might also like to view...
Informational objectives, attitudinal objectives and behavioral objectives are examples of what larger category of objectives, according to Jerry Hendrix's ROPE formula?
a. output b. research c. impact d. opinion
Which of the following techniques allows group members to offer any ideas they wish and to create a list of all the proposed ideas before any of the ideas are debated?
A. mapping B. brainstorming C. ideawriting D. using the nominal group technique
Even if you work mostly alone as a computer programmer or a librarian, you must be able to
communicate effectively with others. Indicate whether the statement is true or false
If, during the middle of your speech, you said, ?OK.....now let?s talk about, uh, global
warming,? you would be guilty of ________. A) a positive pause B) a vocalized pause C) a surprise pause D) poor English