Ethical Speaking

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Ethical Public Speaking

Ethics is the responsibility we have toward theaudience and ourselves.

O’Hair, Stewart, Rubentein

(2009)

Chapter Five



Today’s Agenda

• Learn how to takeresponsibility for your words



Ethics and !ublic "peaking

• Ethics is derived fro# the $reek word ethos which#eans character.

• Little has changed since Aristotle’s day% audience#e#bers still e&pect speakers to be honest' respectful'knowledgeable' and to have organi(ed delivery ofreasonable thoughts.



Take )esponsibility For *our +ords

,. Earn your listener’s trust

-. )espect your listener’s value

. /ring your own value’s into focus



,. Earn your listener’s trust

• 0ave co#petence

• 0ave good #oral character

• 1e#onstrate goodwill• "how credibility

• "olid grasp of sub2ect

• "ound reasoning skills• 0onest and straightforward

• $enuinely interested in the welfare of listener’s



-. )espect your listener’s value

• 3alues can conflict or clash

• Conflicting values lies at the heart of #anycontroversies

• Anticipate the audience will hold a range ofvalues. /e sensitive



. /ring your own values into focus

Your Values Audience Values

4verlapping 3alues

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• Are there any laws that govern whether ornot it is acceptable to lie9

• +hat #essage does society send about lying9

• +hat did your cultural upbringing 5fa#ilytraining8 teach you about lying9

O’Hair, Stewart, Rubentein

(2009)

To tell a lie:

An Ethical Dilemma



:s this an acceptable lie to you9



Free "peech

• !rotected by the First A#end#ent of the ;.".Constitution

• Li#itations< speech that provokes the audience toviolence' that defa#es another person’s character'or that invades another person’s privacy.

• "o#e legally protected speech is still unethical.

O’Hair, Stewart, Rubentein (2009)



3irtual "lander

4nline discussion groups have created new and

anony#ous ways to defa#e another person’s character.

• Facebook

• =y"pace

• /logs

• *ou>tube video clips• !ersonal websites



$round )ules for Ethical "peaking

,. =aintain the dignity of your audience #e#bers.

-. =aintain your integrity by not co#pro#ising thetruth.

. /e trustworthy by not #anipulating data' hidingrelevant infor#ation' or forgetting to reveal sources.

4. Respect the audience by refraining fro# verballyattacking the#. Avoid ethnocentric re#arks' #akingstereotypes, and using hate speech.

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/ibliography

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0annah' A Speaker’s uide!ook ' /edford

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