300+ [UPDATED] Speech Communication Interview Questions

1. What Is Communication?

The process of creating or sharing meaning in informal conversation, group interaction, or public speaking.

2. What Is Participants?

Individuals who assume the roles of senders and receivers during an interaction.

3. What Is Messages?

Verbal utterances and non-verbal behaviors to which meaning is attributed during communication

4. What Is Meaning?

Thoughts in our minds and interpretations of other messages.

5. What Is Symbols?

Words, sounds, and actions that are generally inderstood to represent ideas and feelings.

6. What Is Encoding?

The process of putting our thoughts and feelings into words and nonverbal cues.

7. What Is Decoding?

The process of interpreting another’s message.

8. What Is Contexts?

The settings in which communication occurs

9. What Is Physical Context?

Its location, the environmental conditions, the distance between communicators, seating arrangements, and time of day.

10. What Is Historical Context?

The background provided by previous communication episodes between the participants that influence understandings in the current encounter.

11. What Is Psychological Context?

The mood and feelings each person brings to the conversation.

12. What Is Cultural Context?

The values, attitudes, beliefs, orientations, and underlying assumptions prevalent among people in a society.

13. What Is Channel?

Both the route traveled by the message and the means of transportation.

14. What Is Noise?

Any stimulus that interferes with the process of sharing meaning.

15. What Is Physical Noise?

Sights, sounds, and other stimuli in the environment that draw people’s attention away from intended meaning.

16. What Is Internal Noise?

Thoughts and feelings that compete for attention and interfere with the communication process.

17. What Is Psychological Noise?

Internal distractions based on thoughts, feelings, or emotional reactions to symbols.

18. What Is Semantic Noise?

Distractions aroused by certain symbols that take our attention away from the main message.

19. What Is Feedback?

Reactions and responses to messages.

20. What Is Interpersonal Communication Settings?

Interactions among a small number of people who have relationships with each other.

21. What Is Problem-solving Group Settings?

Participants come together for the specific purpose of solving a problem or arriving at a decision.

22. What Is Public Speaking Settings?

One participant, the speaker, delivers a prepared message to a group or audience who has assembled to hear the speaker.

23. Electronically Meditated Communcation Settings?

Involves participants who do not share a physical context but communicate through the use of technology.

24. What Is E-mail?

Electronic correspondence conducted between two or more users on a network where the communication does not occur in real time.

25. What Is Instant Messaging?

Communication through maintaining a list of people that you can interact with in real time when they are online.

26. What Is Text Messaging?

Short, written messages between mobile phones and other handheld electronic devices, exchanged in real time or stored for later retrieval.

27. What Is Listservs?

Electronic mailing lists through the use of e-mail that allow for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users, so online discussions can occur in a delayed time format.

28. What Is Chat Rooms?

Interactive message exchange between two or more people where multiple messages are exchanged in real time.

29. What Are Weblogs Or Blogs?

Online journals housed on a website.

30. What Is Spontaneous Expressions?

spoken without much conscious thought.

31. What Are Scripted Messages?

Phrasings learned from past encounters that we judge to be appropriate to the present situations.

32. What Are Constructed Messages?

Messages put together with careful thought when we recognize that our known scripts are inadequate for the situation.

33. What Is Immediacy?

The degree of liking or attractiveness in a relationship.

34. What Is Control?

The degree to which one participant is perceived to be more dominant or powerful.

35. What Is Ethics?

A set of moral principles that may be held by a society, a group, or an individual.