Adapting to your audience is a HUGE aspect of giving a speech. If you don't draw in and cater to your audience there wasn't much point in speaking to begin with. Even if you are speaking on a topic that the audience is interested in, if you don't deliver it in such a way that includes them they will become distracted and drift off from listening.
Some things that need to be considered in analyzing your audience include the age of the audience, along with their standpoints, values, attitudes, and beliefs. Other speech considerations are type of setting, the occasion, the time of day and duration of speaking time. When giving your speech, you will adapt to the type of audience by choosing how you phrase opinions, choosing specific examples or stories that won't offend someone, including the audience with their feedback or acknowledging a situation that most will be already encountering in their life.
When I give my speech I will utilize speech analysis by recognizing that I am speaking to a small group, in a closed environment, to people that have a shared culture with me of being college students. I will attempt to draw them in by catering aspects of my speech to include them or bring a relation of where they are in life to what my topic is about.
Great key points about what you would do in your own speech. Luckily, we are all in the same class. Unfortunately, I could see how this would be a little harder if we had to give a speech in a foreign location, other than our class room. Of course you could do some homework on the place your speech would be taking place, but I think a lot of it has to do with thinking on your toes. Even if you know what kind of demographic your audience will be, sometimes an audiences attention will start to fade. So it's just as important to deliver your speech in such a way that it will hold the audiences attention from beginning to end.
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