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The Communication Environment Changes. Conversation can occur in a variety of settings, and the setting can influence the communication that takes place there. One of the most profound discussions of the ethics of communication, Plato’s Phaedrus, written in ancient Greece some twenty-four hundred years ago, takes place in a woodland setting that frames and colors [...]

Public Speaking as Communication, Public speaking builds upon the basic communication skills that we originally develop as we acquire language and learn how to converse with others. As expanded conversation, public speaking preserves the natural directness and spontaneity and the colorful and compelling qualities of good conversation. Like conversation, public speaking is tuned to the [...]