Language and Meaning: Listening Lesson 7

A kind of active listening that challenges the speaker's message by evaluating its accuracy, meaningfulness, and utility.

They go hand in hand, and you cannot listen critically if you do not think critically.

When the full or necessary meaning of a speech has been received, and the receiver can use the information or react to it as expected.

<p>Hearing and choosing what to hear.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person's development as a whole.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pre-understanding, understanding, and post-understanding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To allow us to exchange meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The meanings of symbols are created by humans and are not inherent</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The agreed upon meaning of a word, also known as literal or dictionary meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People, culture, neighbourhood, job, personality, family, education, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language is a system of symbols and rules that are not physical</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Making a mental effort to focus on one sound and discarding the others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Context, which includes histories, relationships, thoughts, and feelings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Making coherent meaning out of the sound, signs, facial expression, and gestures, and using past knowledge to interpret what is heard</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure that one has not forgotten the information received</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Drawing one's own conclusions on a subject based on the information received</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Selection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To make sense of the sound received</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Effective communication</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hearing is a passive physical activity, while listening is an active process of interpreting aural stimuli.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Time, speed, and volume</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Listening with a purpose, involving verbal and nonverbal feedback.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Listening with a purpose to understand the other person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Noise (environmental, psychological, mechanical, or semantic)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The accuracy of the information and the manner of delivery; what the information and the delivery tells about the speaker and his attitudes; and the implications of the information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of verbal or nonverbal reactions to speech stimuli.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To assess the effect of his speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It helps the receiver to do more active listening; and planning to give feedback helps one to deepen his understanding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Feedback takes place.</p> Signup and view all the answers