AUDIENCE INVOLVED: A PARTICIPATORY MODEL OF SPEECH PRODUCTION WHEN DELIVERING TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Abstract
The creation of discourse has been viewed historically as an individual activity where a writer or rhetor creates a text of his or her own invention. But in the last decades we observe more and more concentration and research on the characteristics of audience as an actual living and influential figure in the discourse production, especially when considering the process of delivering technical information to non-technical users. It has become evident that the efficiency of speech perception by the audience is greatly influenced by it being involved in the speech production process and by the extent to which its characteristics had been taken into account. In this article, we will examine some of the peculiarities of audience as a discourse active participant and describe its characteristics which influence the processes of speech production and speech perception in the process of technical information transfer.
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- Published: May 10, 2010.
Keywords
- technical information
- speech perception
- characteristics of audience and its influence on the speech production process
- техническая информация
- восприятие речи
- характеристики аудитории, и ее влияние на процесс порождения речи
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