Speech Communication Interview Questions & Answers

Question 1. What Is Communication?

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The process of creating or sharing meaning in informal conversation, group interaction, or public speaking.

Question 2. What Is Participants?

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Individuals who assume the roles of senders and receivers during an interaction.

Question 3. What Is Messages?

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Verbal utterances and non-verbal behaviors to which meaning is attributed during communication

Question 4. What Is Meaning?

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Thoughts in our minds and interpretations of other messages.

Question 5. What Is Symbols?

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Words, sounds, and actions that are generally inderstood to represent ideas and feelings.

Question 6. What Is Encoding?

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The process of putting our thoughts and feelings into words and nonverbal cues.

Question 7. What Is Decoding?

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The process of interpreting another's message.

Question 8. What Is Contexts?

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The settings in which communication occurs

Question 9. What Is Physical Context?

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Its location, the environmental conditions, the distance between communicators, seating arrangements, and time of day.

Question 10. What Is Historical Context?

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The background provided by previous communication episodes between the participants that influence understandings in the current encounter.

Question 11. What Is Psychological Context?

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The mood and feelings each person brings to the conversation.

Question 12. What Is Cultural Context?

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The values, attitudes, beliefs, orientations, and underlying assumptions prevalent among people in a society.

Question 13. What Is Channel?

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Both the route traveled by the message and the means of transportation.

Question 14. What Is Noise?

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Any stimulus that interferes with the process of sharing meaning.

Question 15. What Is Physical Noise?

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Sights, sounds, and other stimuli in the environment that draw people's attention away from intended meaning.

Question 16. What Is Internal Noise?

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Thoughts and feelings that compete for attention and interfere with the communication process.

Question 17. What Is Psychological Noise?

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Internal distractions based on thoughts, feelings, or emotional reactions to symbols.

Question 18. What Is Semantic Noise?

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Distractions aroused by certain symbols that take our attention away from the main message.

Question 19. What Is Feedback?

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Reactions and responses to messages.

Question 20. What Is Interpersonal Communication Settings?

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Interactions among a small number of people who have relationships with each other.

Question 21. What Is Problem-solving Group Settings?

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Participants come together for the specific purpose of solving a problem or arriving at a decision.

Question 22. What Is Public Speaking Settings?

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One participant, the speaker, delivers a prepared message to a group or audience who has assembled to hear the speaker.

Question 23. Electronically Meditated Communcation Settings?

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Involves participants who do not share a physical context but communicate through the use of technology.

Question 24. What Is E-mail?

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Electronic correspondence conducted between two or more users on a network where the communication does not occur in real time.

Question 25. What Is Instant Messaging?

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Communication through maintaining a list of people that you can interact with in real time when they are online.

Question 26. What Is Text Messaging?

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Short, written messages between mobile phones and other handheld electronic devices, exchanged in real time or stored for later retrieval.

Question 27. What Is Listservs?

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Electronic mailing lists through the use of e-mail that allow for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users, so online discussions can occur in a delayed time format.

Question 28. What Is Chat Rooms?

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Interactive message exchange between two or more people where multiple messages are exchanged in real time.

Question 29. What Are Weblogs Or Blogs?

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Online journals housed on a website.

Question 30. What Is Spontaneous Expressions?

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spoken without much conscious thought.

Question 31. What Are Scripted Messages?

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Phrasings learned from past encounters that we judge to be appropriate to the present situations.

Question 32. What Are Constructed Messages?

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Messages put together with careful thought when we recognize that our known scripts are inadequate for the situation.

Question 33. What Is Immediacy?

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The degree of liking or attractiveness in a relationship.

Question 34. What Is Control?

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The degree to which one participant is perceived to be more dominant or powerful.

Question 35. What Is Ethics?

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A set of moral principles that may be held by a society, a group, or an individual.