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Summary: Delivery is important in speeches. Learn tips for understanding language and meaning in this free video clip about public speaking workshops.

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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more

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Language & Meaning in Speeches

Hey we are talking about words. Words and public speaking. Now I want to talk to for just a minute, give you some food for thought about language and meaning. OK? So I'm going to throw two words at you. The first: denotative. What denotative means is an exact definition, like what you'd find in Webster's dictionary, OK, or any kind of dictionary. If I say the word apartment, if we are using a literal meaning, we think, roof, four walls, structure. OK, that's a literal meaning. If we're talking about connotative, then we start to introduce words connected with feeling. And that's what you want to pay attention to in public speaking. If we're going to look at the connotative meaning of apartment, I say the word apartment and you think, Oh, I love my apartment. I wish I was there right now, curled up on the couch with my cat. Or, if you left a lot of dirty dishes in the sink, you might be thinking, Oh, my apartment, eh. OK? So those are two real important things to keep in mind as you're picking words for your speech. Is there going going to a literal meaning attached or an emotional meaning attached for your audience?

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