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Chapter
11

Delivery:

Engaging Your Audience

Objectives www.mhhe.com/brydon6 Key Concepts

After reading this chapter and reviewing the online learning resources at emblem
www.mhhe.com/brydon6, you should be able to:
environment
• Describe how to adapt your style of delivery to the audience and illustrators
rhetorical situation.
nonverbal behavior
• Describe when manuscript, memorized, impromptu or extemporaneous
proactive delivery
methods of delivery are most appropriate to a speech.
regulators
• Defi ne nonverbal behavior and distinguish between verbal and
nonverbal behavior. self-adapting behaviors
• Describe the relationship between delivery and the eight basic zone of interaction
dimensions of the nonverbal system.
• Display nonverbal behaviors characteristic of effective delivery, includ-
ing control of the speaking environment; proper attire; eye contact
and expressive facial cues; vocal variation in pitch, range, rhythm, and
tempo; clear and distinct vocal articulation; and gestures and move-
ments that serve as emblems, illustrators, and regulators.
• Control distracting self-adaptive behaviors.
• Use time to enhance your credibility and communicate urgency, drama,
humor, and the like during your speech.
• Explain the guidelines for developing a proactive, rather than reactive,
delivery.
• Display nonverbal examples of complementing, contradicting, and
repeating the message; substituting for a verbal cue; increasing the per-
ception of immediacy; exciting the audience; and delivering a powerful
speech.
“ What people do is frequently more important than what they say. ”

—EDWARD T. HALL
anthropologist 1