Welcome to Video three where we look at the language of speaking. Use short, simple sentences with action verbs and one idea per sentence. And that's five to 20 words per sentence. You can try contractions, sentence fragments, short words and slang. Use personal stories and experiences and play concrete specific picture producing words. Use personal pronouns such as I, me, we, us, you, they receive immediate feedback.

Repeat your message, saying it in different ways. Avoid the passive voice. The active voice relies on verbs. Avoid modifiers example thing I think that maybe or perhaps or, or you know, reinforce words with facial expression, voice gestures, and movement. Eliminate distracting vocalized pauses, such as thumbs, ORS oz. Add pauses and silence for dramatic effect, or emphasis.

Use words that your audience will understand. Let's take a look at use using shared meanings. The trouble spot for speakers comes from using words that the audience does not understand. at the onset, you should understand that there's nothing particularly wrong with using terms the audience doesn't understand, as long as you explain the terms and the language that they can understand. Another way of stating this principle is you should explain your terms in the audience's language. You can make your speeches more effective by learning various methods of communicating meaning to an audience.

The following eight methods are a sampling of ways to evoke the meanings you intend. We'll just list them here and then expand upon them in a moment. So types of definitions of comparison, contrasts, synonyms antonyms. Etymology, differentiation, operational definition, an experiential definition. Let's start off with comparisons. comparisons are something unfamiliar can be defined by showing how it is similar to something the audience is more familiar with.

Public speakers should be careful to avoid comparisons that have been overused, such as smooth as silk, pretty as a picture, or hard as a rock. These overuse similes or comparisons are called cliches. Instead, try to make comparisons that helps the audience envision what the speaker describes is an example describing snow as a soft rolling white carpet. Let's move on to contrast. Something similar can be defined by showing how it is different from something else the audience is more familiar with. Under synonyms, to define a term of synonyms is to use words that are closer similar meaning and more familiar to the audience being spaced out so the speaker who is defining the term is similar to having your mind go blank, being dumbfounded or being different.

Oriented antonyms define a term or sorry to define a term with antonyms. This use words that are opposite of meaning and that are more familiar to the audience. Hence being spaced out, is not being alert, keen, or responsive. To define a term by means of its etymology is to give its urgency or history. A desk dictionary will reveal the language or languages from which a word is derived. more specialized sources like the dictionary of mythology, the Oxford English Dictionary, and the etymological Dictionary of modern English, provide more detailed accounts.

In a speech of definition, a speaker use the etymology of a word to explain its significance. Here's an example. What does a rhinoplasty mean? Well without a dictionary, you might That you're lost. But if you break up the word into its two parts, renal, and plasti, the meaning becomes clear. You might not know the meaning of Rhino itself, but if you think of an animal who's named bears a prefix, namely the rhinoceros, and one of the most distinctive feature of the beast, this is rather large snout.

You'd probably guessed correctly, the rhino refers to the nose, the meaning of the suffix, that's the end part of the word plasti. Also seems elusive, but a more common form of plastic refers as meaning of molding or formation. put together these meanings have been modified to create the current medical definition of rhinoplasty. And that's a plastic surgical operation on the nose, either reconstructive, restorative or cosmetic. Put quite simply, a rhinoplasty as a nose job Take a look at differentiation to define a term by means of differentiation is to distinguish it from other members of the same class. For example, some people think that a jury trial is a jury trial, they don't realize that a jury trial can be quite different, depending on whether the case being tried is a civil or a criminal case.

If it's a criminal case, then the jury will have to decide guilt or innocence beyond a reasonable doubt. If the trial is a civil case, then the preponderance of evidence should decide whether the plaintiff or the defendant wins the case. The end result of a jury trial in a criminal case is guilt or innocence, with the former resulting in punishment, the end result of a jury trial in a civil case is damages being either granted or not. Let's take a look an operational definition an operational definition reveals the meaning of a term by describing how it is made, or what it does. A key can be operationally defined by the recipe, the operations that must be performed to make it. A job classification such as a secretary can be operationally defined by the tasks that the person in the job is expected to perform.

A secretary is a person who takes dictation types and files papers. Here's an operational definition from a student speech. Modern rhinoplasty is done for both cosmetic and health reasons. It consists of several mini operations. First, if the septum separating the nostrils, nostrils, has become deviated as a result of an injury or some other means. It is straightened with surgical pliers.

Then if the noses to be remodeled, small incisions are made within each nostril and working entirely within the nose. The surgeon is able to remove reshape, or redistribute the bone and cartilage lying underneath the skin. Finally, the nose is crooked. The chisel is taken to the bones of the upper nose, and they are broken so that they may be straightened and centered. Looking at exponential definition, a term can be explained by revealing a person's experience with it. Other words are ones that are used only by a specific group who have shared experiences.

The kids at a local high school called the real kids reds. in some circles, calling someone a red might mean that they're a communist. But in this case, the high schoolers mean that the reds are rednecks, slang expression for country folks. Another example of a term that can only be understood through experiential definition are the posters on campus. The posters are students who have served as writers and editors on the university's daily Newspaper the post. Press you can think of terms that are used by a gang or an organization or an ethnic group that can be explained only by revealing those people's experiences with the word.

And the next video, we look at words that are worth forgetting, meaning that you should remove them from your vocabulary.