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Hi everyone,
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my name is talent and this is my topic facilitation
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speech for Chapter eight which is all about verbal communication.
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Verbal communication is defined in the textbook as the exchange
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of spoken or written language with others during interaction.
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The characteristics of language are that it is symbolic. It's governed by rules.
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It's flexible,
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it's cultural and it evolves.
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Some aspects of verbal communication are sharing meaning
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shaping thought and performing actions.
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So for my speech I chose the topics of how language evolves
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and speech X.
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So for the first topic of how language evolves,
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language may seem stable but it's in a constant state of flux.
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Um,
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language is changing all the time even though we might not realize it.
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And the Oxford english dictionary actually continues to have updated
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versions containing new words that have been added to the english
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language.
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Here are a few examples of
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words what they had previously meant and what they might mean now to some of us.
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So the first word is green
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and the old meaning of the word would mean like
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the color yellow, blue
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makes green.
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But a new meaning of the word green could be going green for the planet and being green
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means that we're helping the environment, things like that.
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Yeah.
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Um the second word is friend.
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So the old meaning of the word friend would be someone
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who are close to you spend a lot of time with
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but a new meaning of the word friend could be
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friends on facebook friends on social media
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which are honestly random people a lot of the times.
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Um the last word on this little picture is organic,
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which the old meaning would be like living matter
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and you got it from the garden, something like that. And a new meeting of organic.
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There's like a little picture of an organic hot dog and
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it's just basically things that are naturally made but still made in a factory.
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Those are a few of the examples
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of
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words that have
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two different meanings.
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Um, next is this video with um 10 words that
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also have different meanings.
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You know that the word Nimrod used to refer to a hunter in the book of genesis.
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Nimrod is described as a mighty hunter.
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But beginning in the 19 forties,
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Bugs bunny sarcastically referred to Elmer fudd as a nimrod, which makes sense,
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you know, because Elmer's a hunter.
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But the word's meaning started to shift,
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although the precise entomological path is debated now, it describes an idiot.
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Anyway,
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that's the first of many words that have changed meaning over
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time that I'm going to talk to you about today.
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Yeah,
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yeah,
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norman mailer came up with the term factoid and his book Marian,
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he described factoids as facts which have no
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existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper creations
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which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the silent majority.
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But nowadays of course, rather than fake facts.
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The word typically refers to trivia. Egregious used to be a good thing.
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Starting in the 15 thirties, it meant good or distinguished,
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but in the late 16th century it began to take on an ironic tone and from there,
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the meaning shifted to a negative connotation.
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The exact opposite happened to the word fond.
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It originally came from the word fond, meaning foolish.
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Now it's a much nicer term,
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but it does imply that you're a fool for whatever
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you're fond of backlog used to be much more literal.
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It was the biggest log in a fireplace because it was big.
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It was put in the back where it could burn for many hours before it had to be replaced.
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Another one that used to be more literal blockbuster,
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that was a bomb that could destroy an entire block.
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It eventually came to mean anything with a massive effect.
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Nowadays we mostly use it to describe triumphs in the entertainment industry.
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Come to think of it.
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The entertainment also uses it to describe extremely modest successes.
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You know, like the emoji movie was a blockbuster.
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I mean that's a very small block.
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There used to be a different kind of mugger,
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a person who sold mugs in the 18th century
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mugs that looked like human faces were in style.
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So it became a slang term for face too bad.
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Face mugs are no longer in style,
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but we're trying to make lobster mugs into a thing cheater
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also used to be a profession in the 14th century,
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a cheater was an officer who guarded land that had
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been inherited by the state that is the monarch.
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The land was known as the king's s cheat and this
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happened automatically when a landowner died and didn't have air.
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The cheaters developed reputations for changing
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their assessments for their own game.
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So it quickly came to mean of dishonest player or person. It isn't confirmed.
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But some claim that Guy Fawkes is responsible
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for the current meaning of the word God.
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It started when people would burn statues known as guys on november 5th.
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And it came to mean anyone who looked protests and then eventually it just meant
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any old guy speaking of guy girl has changed meanings to back in the day.
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Girls were just young people in general.
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So that was a video about 10 different
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um words that have new meanings now than meanings that they used to have
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and
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words like this,
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they're changing meaning um change how we're
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understanding each other and how we can
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communicating verbally with each other.
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My second topic was speech X.
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Um The five types of speech acts are representative, directive, ca missive,
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expressive and declarative
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and speech acts are actions we perform with language such as a question.
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In the next video, I'm going to show you, it goes over
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All five of the speech X and
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some examples
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of how they would be used
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or
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how you would see them in verbal communication.
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Um The only thing about the video is
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Number one in our textbook is representative
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and # one in the video is assertive. So
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just keep in mind.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So there was a quick little video with board bubbles about
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how we perform these different speech acts and what it may look like.
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Speech acts are important to recognize and utilize
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because they help structure our interactions with people
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and help get across the information, the emotion that we're feeling inside.
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Um for my questions.
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Um # one,
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is are there any words that you can think of that have changed meaning over time?
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Number two,
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is are there any new words that you can think of or that you may use in communication?
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And then the third question I have is out of the five.
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Which speech act do you think you use most often?
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Um Thank you guys for watching my video and hopefully it was kind of helpful