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• Types of Speeches According to Purpose

  • Informative
  • Entertainment
  • Persuasive
  • Demonstration
• Informative Speech


  • Generally talks about people, events, places, things or processes
  • Provides information about a person, place, animal, object or ideas
  • Solid information and less on emotions
• Informative Speech


  • SONA, class discussion
• Persuasive Speech


  • Aims to convince the listeners or the audience or the listeners to support the speaker's argument
  • Aims to influence the thoughts, feelings, actions, and behavior of the listeners
• Persuasive Speech

  • Political campaign or rally
• Entertainment Speech


  • Aims to make people happy
  • Can make you smile, think positive, feel relaxed, and even cry and intends to amuse the audience or arouse their emotions
• Entertainment Speech


  • Wedding toast, stand up comedy
• Demonstration Speech


  • Aims to inform like the informative speech, the only difference is that — an informative speech should include a "how-to-do" demonstration
  • Shows procedures and how things work
• Types of Speeches According to Delivery

  • Manuscript
  • Impromptu
  • Memorized
  • Extemporaneous
• Manuscript Speech


  • Verbatim
  • Delivered by reading from a written text — a paper script, or a teleprompter
  • Typically used when time is limited
• Memorized Speech


  • No bringing of your notes
  • This speech requires the speaker to commit the speech to memory
  • Typically used when time is not limited
• Impromptu Speech


  • Delivered with little or no time for preparation
  • Listening, brainstorming, analyzing, buying time and not rushing to speak are the usual modest expectations
• Extemporaneous Speech


  • A planned and prepared speech
  • Delivered with help of short notes and clear outline
• Stylistics


  A branch of linguistics that studies & interprets a message based on their tone and style
• Style


  Something that makes a person unique
• Speaker's Style


  The unique way in which the speech message is delivered to the audience
• Speech Styles


  Patterns of speaking characterized by distinctive pronunciation
• Types of Speech Style

  • Intimate
  • Consultative
  • Frozen
  • Casual
  • Formal
• Intimate Speech


  • Used between people who have very close relationships and share experiential knowledge in common
  • Do not care about grammar and pronunciation
  • Do not plan or monitor their speech and may employ a lot of sentence fragments and broken speech
• Intimate Speech


  • Two bffs recalling how their friendship started, a grandson sharing his stories to his grandmother
• Casual Speech


  • Conversational way of talking used among friends
  • Use a lot of trendy words and phrases
  • Speaks in incomplete sentences; uses slang
  • Not conscious about pronunciation, grammar, or choice of words
• Consultative Speech


  • Speaks in complete sentences in order to minimize the misunderstandings
  • Speaker pronounces words well; speaker chooses words carefully
  • Communicators who are not very familiar to each other or between two parties who have different social positions
  • Speaker constantly observes the listener's verbal and nonverbal cues for feedback as to whether the speaker seems to be giving too little or too much information
• Consultative Speech


  • Therapy session
• Formal Speech


  • Speaking in formal settings no matter how the participants are related to each other
  • Language spoken in formal style
  • Speaker usually prepares in advance so that content is logically organized and the structure is polished
  • Choice of words is predisposed to the standard language; sentences and paragraphs are interconnected through cohesion devices
• Cohesion devices


  In conclusion, for example, however, moreover, etc. (linking words)
• Frozen Speech


  • Rendering of the utterance is monotone and formal
  • Language used in this speech style is often filled with allusions and rich lexicons
  • Often seen in formal ceremonies and rituals like weddings, baptism, and other proclamations with formulaic statements
  • Very formal style which is characterized by the lack of participation and feedback giving from the receiver's end
• Lexicon


  Vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge
• It is very important to learn the skills in public communication because you want to speak and be understood
• Speakers use different styles when speaking
• Style of speech


  • Normally dictated by the purpose of the speech itself
  • Allows a speaker to deliver a speech more effectively
  • Are adjusted based on specific situations (subject matter, purpose, and audience)
• Principles to be considered in speech delivery

  • Articulation
  • Modulation
  • Facial expressions, gestures, and movements
  • Stage Presence
• Articulation


  Way or style the speaker delivers his speech
• Modulation


  Pitch or tone of your voice so that the audience can clearly hear and understand the speech
• Facial expressions, gestures, and movements


  Forms of nonverbal communication that helps in bolstering the speaker's message during a speech delivery
• Stage Presence


  The charisma and charm of a theater actor or performer that establishes rapport with the audience
• Speech Acts are utterances that a speaker makes to achieve an intended effect
• Speech Acts serve their function once they are said or communicated
• Speech Acts might contain just one word or several word or sentences
• A speech act always has an intention and should be performed by the person to whom the speaker is addressing to
• Types of Speech Acts

  • Locutionary
  • Illocutionary
  • Perlocutionary