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Audience-Centered Listening
COMS 151/L
Shared Understanding?
“plant”
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Individual and collective assignment of meaning
What contributes to our interpretation of meaning?
History
Culture, language
Place in society
Education
Association with the topic and with related topics
Concrete vs. abstract perspective
Or maybe I mean….
…Robert Plant.
Why We Fail to Listen
- Listener Interference
- Speaker Interference Caused by Information
- Speaker Interference Caused by Language
- Formal or technical language
- Casual Language
- Non-Inclusive Language
- Speaker Interference Caused by Differences
- Technology
Audience Centered Listening
- Carefully
- Critically
- Ethically
Audience-Centered
- Audience-centered is audience-centered
- Choose topic based on audience’s interests
- Match their interests with your expertise
- Target audience should be part of the actual audience
- Adapt speech to facilitate listening
- Choose language carefully
- Minimize impact of differences
- Consider audience comfort
- Monitor audience psychology
