Intrapersonal Communication

- Communication with oneself

- Refers to a person’s communication with himself or herself
- Exists within the mind

Examples
1. Talking to oneself in front of the mirror
2. Thinking out loud
3. Making plans and decisions
4. Smiling to oneself after a job well-done
5. Telling yourself to stop during certain things which you know are harmful

Importance
1. Gives us a chance to pause and plan carefully before doing or saying anything
2. Helps us avoid doing or saying something detrimental to oneself or anything harmful to others
3. Motivates us to achieve our goals

Benefits
1. Writers and authors imagine various scenarios that serve as their inspiration for composing novels or
poems or for making artworks
2. Actors internalize the roles they are about to play so they can act naturally and believably
3. Scientists do lots of self-talks when conducting experiments or solving problems

Interpersonal Communication
- Communicating with one or more
- Involving or occuring among several people

Examples
1. Casual / formal conversations
2. Interviews
3. Face-to-face
4. Group discussions

Four Principles of Interpersonal Communication

1. It is inescapable
2. It is irreversible
3. It is complicated
4. It is contextual
Context of Interpersonal Communication
1. Psychological Context
- Who you are and what you bring to the interaction
2. Relational Context
- Concerns your reactions to the other person
3. Situational Context
- Deals with the psycho-social “where” you are communicating
4. Environmental Context
- Deals with the physical “where” you are communicating
5. Cultural Context
- Includes all the learned behaviors and rules that affect the interaction

Use of Interpersonal Communication

- Give and collect information
- Influence the attitudes and behavior of others
- Form contacts and make or maintain relationships
- Make sense of the world and our experience in it
- Express personal needs and understand the needs of others
- Give and receive emotional support
- Make decisions and solve problems
- Anticipate and predict behavior

Interpersonal Intelligence
- The capacity to experience the intentions, interests, desires, fears, and motivation/goals of other people
- The ability to have interest in and/or empathy for other people’s views

Interpersonal Intelligence helps you become a better friend. Someone who other people can trust with their
problems and their issues. It helps you become a better friend and as a result helps you achieve more when
working with others.

Types of Speech According to Purpose

Informative Speech
- Crafted to offer stimulating and valuable information to a general audience or group of people

Characteristics
1. Topic & Goal
- The ultimate goals of it is to inform and educate the audience about a subject matter that is noteworthy
2. Details
- Use accurate data and appropriate illustrations or examples
3. Organization
- Designed to have three parts;
Introductory Statement (question, statement, quotation; gist), Body, Concluding Part
Rhetorical Methods
1. Chronological
- Organizes facts, incidents, events, or occasions based on progression of time or the order they
happened in time
2. Sequential
- Information is arranged based on a step-by-step sequence that illustrates or describes a specific
process
3. Spatial
- Organizes information based on how things appear in physical space such as based on geography, floor
plans, and instrumental panels
4. Cause and Effect
- Focuses on two main points; the cause of a particular subject and its effects to another
5. Topical / Logical
- Used when presenting an idea that has several other sub-ideas

Persuasive Speech
- With a definitive goal to convince the audience to accept the speaker’s standpoints

Characteristics
1. Introductory Phase
- Begin with a strong impression or feeling on a significant issue
2. Goal
- To convince your audience to agree with your arguments
3. Audience
- Strong awareness of your audience
- Students / Professionals
- Prepare by anticipating answers to these questions
4. Voice
- Consider speaking with convictiona and assurance, but with sensible and unbiased remarks
- Gain trust from your audience

Focus of Persuasion
a. Fact
- Arguments must be verifiable
- Can be proven to be either true or false
b. Value
- Argue on what is right and what is wrong
- Morality
c. Policy
- Should, should not, must, must not, ought to
- Actions should or should not be taken
Entertainment Speech
- Enables speakers to connect with audiences not only at cognitive level but also at the affective level

Preparing an Entertainment Speech

1. Know your Audience
- To learn the different ways of being entertained
2. Learn from Veteran Speakers
- You have the freedom to learn your own techniques
3. Understand the Available Techniques of Producing Entertainment and Humor
Puns: produces humor through funny use of words
- To avoid miscommunication or offending someone through your speech
- Bad humor is very offending
4. Understand the unacceptable methods of producing humor
- Sexually-charged jokes or remarks and toilet humors are unacceptable

Writing an Entertainment Speech

1. Prepare the Backbone
- Main ideas of a narrative, informative, or a persuasive speech
- Statement of your thesis
2. For each of your main ideas, add anecdotes, jokes, witty comments, and other entertaining
remarks that will capture your audience’s attention
3. Write your thesis
- Main point / main idea
4. Restate your thesis as your conclusion
- Inviting your audience to accept your conclusion is enough
5. Edit your speech for grammar and word use

Delivering an Entertainment Speech

1. Test your delivery
- Practice
- Effective and meaningful delivery
2. Make use of verbal and non-verbal language
- Increases the possibility of entertainment
3. Avoid overused routines
- When this happens, your audience will not be entertained and may even find you irritating
- You can use overused routines by introducing new elements and can be found as unexpected and
surprisingly entertaining
Types of Speech According to Delivery
1. Read Speech
- Read from a manuscript prepared by themselves or someone else commissioned to write it
2. Memorized Speech
- It is also written in advance by the speaker or someone else commissioned to write it
- Memorized or rehearsed by the speaker
3. Extemporaneous Speech
- Delivered by the speaker who has an expert knowledge on the topic and was able to deliver an entire
speech using an outline of idea on cue cards
4. Impromptu Speech
- Delivered with little to no time of preparation at events
- It is usually short and casual