Across
- 2. The physical process receiver-senders use to take in the sender’s message
- 4. Term associated with a specific regional culture
- 5. Speech pattern associated with an area of the country or with a cultural or ethnic background
- 8. Act of choosing, consciously or subconsciously, to focus your attention on verbal or nonverbal stimuli
- 9. Mental process receiver-senders use to create meaning from language
- 11. Physical production of particular speech sounds
- 13. Obstacle that blocks communication
- 15. Evaluation
- 16. Way a presenter uses his or her body and voice to communicate a message to an audience
- 17. Means by which a message is communicated
Down
- 1. Audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic
- 3. Trite or overused expression
- 4. Process of creating and exchanging meaning through symbolic interactions
- 6. Hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress
- 7. Connection established between two otherwise dissimilar ideas or things
- 10. Set of life patterns passed down from one generation to the next in a group of people
- 12. Word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them
- 13. Middle part of a speech, used to develop the main ideas
- 14. Standards on which a judgment or decision can be based
- 16. Degree of clarity and distinctness in a person’s speech