Listeners

from the moment of responding to a mother’s voice while in the womb. The authors state “effective speakers, however are those who can relate to their listeners; good speakers know how to establish a relationship with the audience by listening to audience members one on one before a talk or lecture” (p.115). It is important to become a good listener because listening plays a key role in successful communication. In order to become an effective speaker, you need to become an

two groups of speakers with perceptually similar speech patterns (ataxic and hypokinetic dysarthria) and intelligibility levels, which treatment strategy, increased loudness or reduced speech rate provided optimal gains for listener perception. Also, if older and younger listener participants differed in their ability to resolve this degraded signal. Finally, the study examined the relationship between individual speaker’s degree of intelligibility change and the variation in acoustic measures across

Speakers have the opportunity to express their thoughts to the listeners. Are the listeners receiving the message appropriately? Listening is more important because of the information that being receives and to provide feedback that can be beneficial. There are different listeners that occur in organizations that may satisfy or dissatisfy a manager or employee. A good listener’s provides the speaker their entire attention. They good listeners take into consideration that they can learn something or provide

of taste but instead he is only concerned that the listener detach themselves from the work for a more objective viewpoint. Although the idea of being "distant" from a work is sometimes ambiguous it can be interpreted at least three ways. The first as a literal distance, the second as a dimensional distance, and lastly the most important being a "psychic distance" in the form of emotional detachment. Like Funes, Rowell states the listener diminishes the possibilities of achieving an aesthetic

time, it appears that there is minimal waiting. Unlike BetterHelp, 7 Cups of Tea offers real-time one-on-one sessions with listeners. Clients can either choose to immediately connect with the next available listener, or they can request a specific person. The site explains their service as a “marketplace” in which listeners are notified of an incoming request. The first listener to respond is the one who works with the client (7 Cups of Tea, Frequently Asked Questions, 2016). This setup can be particularly

after death. Edwards uses the emotion of fear through the power of his words along with many syntactic techniques to influence his listeners to turn to God and save their long term souls. In the brief section of Edwards sermon, it starts with his use of balanced syntax. Edwards uses balanced syntax to create a visual picture in his listeners minds and endorses his listeners to evaluate the differences between the sides. “We find it easy to...; so it is easy for us...; thus easy is it for God.” He creates

Everyone has heard a Green Day song at some point in their life, from their hit “Holiday” to “American Idiot.” Green Day has been a popular band that started in the 1990’s. Being a punk band in the 90’s the artists quickly made an impact by being rebellious and speaking their true thoughts. They focus on the realities of life, rather than a fluffed-up version that may seem too good to be true. In some of their other hits they show how broken and defeated someone may be without ever noticing it. While

of the girl he loves, as a guest. Contemplating whether to tell the bride of his love for her. “Marry Me” uses a variety of literary devices to his advantage to explain the sad story to the listener. Imagery was a big factor Rhett's’ song. Rhett in his “black suit, black tie,” automatically makes the listener assume Rhett is marrying the bride. Though, later he explains “she don’t wanna marry me,” showing that he was not the groom- just a guest at his best friends wedding. The imagery brings the

Composed to be as easily accessible and enjoyable as possible, pop music is rarely associated with authenticity or the political; instead, pop is often interacted with as music meant to separate the listener from existential issues they might otherwise face, rather than music meant to confront the listener with these same issues. However, “political pop” is in the midst of a renaissance, with some of the most popular musicians being the most vocal about their political ideologies. Beyonce’s critically-acclaimed

of the most influential British singers of all time, John Lennon. In his song Imagine, the very first line, "Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try," (John Lennon, Imagine), causes the listener to automatically begin thinking. The song is emotionally filled and full of instances where a listener is forced to think of what Lennon is saying in the song. Lennon was considered a very influential leader in efforts of world peace during his time, and still to this day his messages reach across