Week 2: Post 3
A concept that I found was useful and important from chapter 10 is the concept of creating a relationship with the audience. Not only do you have to create a relationship with the audience but it also has to be an appropriate relationship depending on your audience. Everyone is an individual and everyone will like things that maybe other people don’t and so you have to pick and choose the right things that you want to say and make sure that the audience will respond positively to your speech. The same speech can be given to a group of adults and a group of children, but the way in which the speech is presented needs to drastically change. While the content of the speech may be the same and the general message is the same, the message is delivered in a much different way because of the audience change. Like the book says, audience adaptation is not lying to your audience; it just means making a message relevant and understandable, which is what needs to be done when speaking to different groups of people.
posted by Eleanor Rigby @ 10:29 AM
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Eleanor Rigby-
It seems like creating a relationship with your audience might get tricky if you were presenting to a very demographically mixed crowd. For example, if you were giving a speech to a group that was a mix of adults and children, who would you try to appeal to more? I guess this is where knowing more detail about the demographics of your audience would be helpful. It seems like it would be much easier to use audience adaptation if you were speaking to a specific group of people, rather than the general public. For example, it would be much easier to adapt you speech to appeal to a children’s youth group, than the entire city of San Jose. What a challenge that would be! ☺
Eleanor Rigby-
It seems like creating a relationship with your audience and using audience adaptation might get tricky if you were presenting to a very demographically mixed crowd. For example, if you were giving a speech to a group that is a big mix of adults and children, who would you try to appeal to more? I guess this is where knowing the demographics of your audience can be helpful. It seems like it would be much easier to structure your speech and decide on what style to use if you are speaking to a specific group of people, rather than the general public. For example, it would be much easier to adapt you speech to a children’s youth group, than the entire city of San Jose. What a challenge that would be!
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