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  2. Public speaking - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The main objective of public speaking is to inform or change the audience's thoughts and actions. [ 6 ] The function of public speaking is determined by the speaker's intent, but it is possible for the same speaker, with the same intent, to deliver substantially different speeches to different audiences.

  3. Oral skills - Wikipedia

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    Oral skills are speech enhancers that are used to produce clear sentences that are intelligible to an audience. Oral skills are used to enhance the clarity of speech for effective communication. Communication is the transmission of messages and the correct interpretation of information between people. The production speech is insisted by the ...

  4. Communication - Wikipedia

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    Most everyday verbal communication happens using natural languages. Central forms of verbal communication are speech and writing together with their counterparts of listening and reading. [53] Spoken languages use sounds to produce signs and transmit meaning while for writing, the signs are physically inscribed on a surface. [54]

  5. Communicative competence - Wikipedia

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    Communicative competence. The concept of communicative competence, as developed in linguistics, originated in response to perceived inadequacy of the notion of linguistic competence. That is, communicative competence encompasses a language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, but reconceives this knowledge ...

  6. Speech - Wikipedia

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    Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, such as informing, declaring, asking, persuading, directing; acts may vary in various aspects like ...

  7. Speech production - Wikipedia

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    Speech production is the process by which thoughts are translated into speech. This includes the selection of words, the organization of relevant grammatical forms, and then the articulation of the resulting sounds by the motor system using the vocal apparatus. Speech production can be spontaneous such as when a person creates the words of a ...

  8. Communication studies - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Communication studies (or communication science) is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in different cultures. [1] Communication is commonly defined as giving, receiving or exchanging ideas ...

  9. Ethnography of communication - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The ethnography of communication (EOC), originally called the ethnography of speaking, is the analysis of communication within the wider context of the social and cultural practices and beliefs of the members of a particular culture or speech community. It comes from ethnographic research [1][2] It is a method of discourse analysis in ...