National open university of nigeria school of arts and social sciences
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| Participants This refers to the speaker and his/her audience in any particular speech situation. The speaker is the person who is performing a speech act. He/she maybe informing, directing, or eliciting some form of behaviour form his/her audience. The audience is the people involved in the speech situation, usually, they are being addressed by the speaker. Participants do not have to be physically present before the speaker. There instances of communication in which the speaker is faraway form the participants, eg: news, telephone, email, and so forth. Ends This refers to the purpose, goal or outcome of the communication. For instance a goal might be to educate as in the speech situation involving a teacher and his/her students to entertain, as in a comedian and his/her audience to promote a view, as in apolitical campaign, an advertisement, etc. Act Sequence Every even has a form and an order it follows. This is what is being referred to here. There are always ways to order one’s communication so that they can be meaningful to the other participants. For instance, a story usually starts with the following phrase once upon a time, along time ago, in the year, and so forth. This is the point of departure and it makes the communication a story. Every meeting starts with a greeting. This is particularly more prominent informal presentations, where protocols are observed, that is, some people have to be recognized and greeted in a particular order (usually, the order of their status. 42 Key The ways of behaving differs when people are engaged indifferent speech events. For instance, we use different tones when we are engaged indifferent discursive practices. Our tone and facial expression are serious when we are warning people. When we are engaged in any form of banter, we are more relaxed in our tone. There are ways we speaks that will make people laugh and there are ways we speak that will make people sober or even cry. These are what we mean by key as a component of Ethnography of Speaking. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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