Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice in Public Speech

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Alex Borkowski
Keyword(s):  
Public Speech

Contribution of an Educational Phase to Stress Inoculation of Speech Anxiety

1980 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-501
Author(s):  
Matt E. Jaremko ◽  
Rob Hadfield ◽  
William E. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Combination Group ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Stress Inoculation ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Stress Inoculation Training ◽  
Speech Anxiety ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Behavioral Ratings ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Treatment Control Group

A study is described in which students anxious about speeches were treated by variations of stress inoculation training. The purpose of the experiment was to evaluate the contribution of an educational phase to the training. Three treatment groups received either the educational phase only, the skills phase only, or both. These were compared with a no-treatment control group. The education-only group was the only group to improve significantly on self-reported anxiety measured before giving a public speech. The education-only and combination group improved on self-reported self-efficacy as a speaker. All groups improved on behavioral ratings of anxiety. Discussion focuses on the apparent potency of using an educational model in the treatment of anxiety. Future research is suggested for delineating the conditions under which education is a powerful ingredient.

Canonical Relationships between Prestige and Interpersonal Attraction

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Powell ◽  
Mark L. Hickson ◽  
Sidney R. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Canonical Correlation ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Interpersonal Attraction ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Female Speaker ◽  
Physical Attraction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Prestige

Canonical correlation was employed to test the relationship between prestige and interpersonal attraction in a public speaking situation. The hypothesis was that, when responding to a public speech, subjects would make judgments about the prestige of the speaker that would serve as an inferential base regarding conclusions about the interpersonal attraction of that individual. Results indicated that males ( ns = 78, 48) made judgments of interpersonal attraction dominated by task attraction, while females ( ns 90, 69) made multiple judgments about interpersonal attraction encompassing social, task, and physical attraction. Different results were obtained for a male and a female speaker.

Positive Free Speech: A Democratic Freedom

2021 ◽  
pp. 230-248
Author(s):  
Andrew T. Kenyon
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Positive Freedom ◽  
Negative Liberty ◽  
Structural Dimensions ◽  
Democratic Freedom ◽  
Legal Right

This chapter explores the positive structural dimensions of the freedom of speech by using a democratic free speech rationale. While far from the only aspect of positive free speech, it offers a useful example of the freedom’s positive dimensions. The chapter focuses on legal conditions underlying public speech and their links to democratic constitutional arrangements. It outlines the general approach before drawing brief comparisons with two well-known US approaches to free speech and media freedom. The chapter then highlights two of the multiple ways in which ‘positive’ can be used in relation to free speech. Positive may concern positive freedom, the idea that freedom is not only a negative liberty but requires support or enablement. It can also be used in terms of a positive right, typically a legal right enforced through courts.

Physical Appearance Anxiety Impedes the Therapeutic Effects of Video Feedback in High Socially Anxious Individuals

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. J. Orr ◽  
David A. Moscovitch
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Video Feedback ◽  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Treatment Protocols ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Appearance Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Cognitive Preparation

Background: Video feedback (VF) interventions effectively reduce social anxiety symptoms and negative self-perception, particularly when they are preceded by cognitive preparation (CP) and followed by cognitive review. Aims: In the current study, we re-examined data from a study on the efficacy of a novel VF intervention for individuals high in social anxiety to test the hypothesis that physical appearance anxiety would moderate the effects of VF. Method: Data were analyzed from 68 socially anxious participants who performed an initial public speech, and were randomly assigned to an Elaborated VF condition (VF plus cognitive preparation and cognitive review), a Standard VF condition (VF plus cognitive preparation) or a No VF condition (exposure alone), and then performed a second speech. Results: As hypothesized, when appearance concerns were low, both participants who received Elaborated and Standard VF were significantly less anxious during speech 2 than those in the No VF condition. However, when levels of appearance concern were high, neither Elaborated nor Standard VF reduced anxiety levels during speech 2 beyond the No VF condition. Conclusions: Results from our analog sample suggest the importance of tailoring treatment protocols to accommodate the idiosyncratic concerns of socially anxious patients.

scholarly journals Silencing the Other’s Voice?

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-32
Author(s):  
Heidi Henriikka Haapoja-Mäkelä
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Music Scene

Kalevalaic runosinging is a Baltic-Finnic tradition of metered oral poetry. In Finland, runo singing and the national epic Kalevala based on this tradition are often seen − especially in public speech − as nationally significant symbols of Finnishness. In this article, I examine how the idea of the Finnishness of traditional runo songs has been constructed in the changing paradigms of studying and performing folk music and oral poetry in Finland across the last hundred years, and how the concept of cultural appropriation relates to this. I will concentrate on early Finnish folk music studies as well as on the contemporary Finnish folk music scene; I tie these fields together by following the circulation of an Ingrian runosong theme called Oi daiafter it became part of archived folklore collections in Finland in 1906.

scholarly journals Kompleksnyy podkhod k issledovaniyu ekonomicheskogo kinodiskursa

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Alexandra A. Lukina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Total Duration ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Business English ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
Business Negotiations ◽  
Film Texts ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Film Discourse

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the economics film discourse. Eleven feature films and documentaries of the economic genre in the English and Russian languages (total duration – 1,221 minutes) served as the material for the research. The article provides an overview of linguistic studies of the economic discourse over the past 20 years, describing three forms of its existence and functioning: scientific economic discourse, official business economic discourse, and popular economic discourse. Further, the author substantiates the feasibility of using film texts as material for linguistic research into the economic discourse, as well as its advantage – the possibility of studying three modes: oral, written, and gestural. The paper presents the following typological aspects of the economics film discourse: target audience, participants in communication, communication code, topic and precedent texts as the main idea. Based on those, the author identifies and describes the target audience of economics films, three binary models of interaction between participants in economic communication and their features. Further, the paper presents typological variety of discourses in which economic communication unfolds. There are considered everyday discourse, mass information discourse, and business discourse. In the last one, the author identifies the following genres: business conversation, business negotiations, office meeting, public speech, presentation, business discussion, press conference, business correspondence. In addition, the author has compiled terminological maps for economics films with the identification of key terms that determine the subject matter and the main problem of each film. The results of the analysis can be used not only in further research in the field of discourse and textual analysis but also as a basis for the formation of lecture and practical materials to be used for the course of business English and in the training of translators in the field of economics.

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