What is context?

What is context?
 In speech, context refers to three
things :
- the person speaking
- the situation/event
-the person(s) being
addressed/spoken to
Types of Speech
Context
 Types of Speech
Context
Intrapersonal
Communication
Interpersonal
Communication
 Intrapersonal
Communication
 defined as a person's
communication with himself or
herself
 Two instances of intrapersonal
communication are:
- talking to oneself in front of a
mirror
- thinking out loud
 Do you agree that talking
to yourself is normal and
beneficial?
 Intrapersonal
Communication
Help you avoid doing or
saying something detrimental
to yourself or anything
harmful to others
Help motivate you toward
achieving your goals
 Examples of Intrapersonal
Communication
 Writers and Painters imagine various
scenarios that serve as their inspiration for
composing novels or poems or for making
artworks.
 Actors internalize the roles they are to play
so they act naturally and believably.
 Scientists do lots of self talk, especially when
they are deep in thought while conducting
experiments or solving problems.
 Interpersonal
Communication
 Interpersonal means "something
involving, or occurring among
several people."
 Communication with one or more
persons
 It could be face to face or via a
gadget such as a cell phone.
"No man is an
island."
 Examples of Interpersonal
Communication

 Conversations
 Interviews
 Casual Talks
 Small group discussions
 Identity the context of each given
situation. Write interpersonal or
intrapersonal.
1. Guidance counselor and student in a
counseling session
2. A poet writing a poem
3. A pianist trying to find the right keys for a
song
4. Employee convincing his boss that he
deserves a salary increase
5. Basketball coach signaling to a player
6. A boy making his friends laugh
7. A painter choosing which color to use on his
canvass
8. A ballerina rehearsing in front of a mirror
9. A scientist figuring out the right combination
of chemicals
10. Your neighbor greeting you each morning
 Interpersonal
Communication
 Dyadic Communication
 Small Group Communication
 Public Communication
 Dyadic Communication

 Involves only two participants

forming the DYAD.
 One speaker and one listener
come together to exchange
thoughts, ideas, opinions, and
information.
 Small Group
Communication
 Requires from 3 to 15 people to
study an issue, discuss a problem,
and come up with a solution or a
plan.
 The group has an agenda, a leader,
and an outcome to accomplish.
 Everyone can be both a speaker and
listener.
 Small groups may be divided
according to purpose:
 StudyGroups
 Task Oriented Groups
 Study Groups
Meant to look into a
problem but not necessarily
come up with a solution
 Task Oriented Groups

Study an issue such as the

perennial traffic problem of
Metro Manila or the
pollution of Laguna de Bay
to come up with a plan to
resolve that issue
 Examples of Small Group
Communication
Paneldiscussion
Symposia
Round Table and etc.
 Public Communication
 Speaker addresses many listeners,
collectively known as an audience.
 Most of the Public Communication
events are formal.
 The speech is well prepared, the
speaker is dressed appropriately, and
the listeners are set to listen to the
Message.
 Public Communication
 The informal version of Public
Communication does not necessarily have
a stage, the speaker may be dressed
informally, and there may or may not be a
microphone or, sometimes, just a
megaphone.
 It happens when the gathering is
impromptu such as family reunions and
during protest rallies.