Reflection Exercise 7.2

Blogging: Criticizing a great speech – Discussion in COMM11003 Term 1, week7, 2015

       This article reviews the speech given by the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio in “UN Climate summit”. He talks about the climate change, global warming and its effects towards human beings. The speech is clearly delivered with excellent speed, volume, and pitch. At first he clarifies the effects of global warming and then he simply defend himself that human attitude towards it is not serious.

In the speech he speaks politely and he put himself beneath than audience in order to face challenging audience and prove live like a human being. Dwyer (2013, p. 443) suggests to ‘respond honestly and assertively…without anger or defensiveness’ if you are faced with a challenging audience member or question, stay calm, be polite and do not be drawn into a defensive argument. He was presenting in front of leaders, politician and other challenging people so, his closing was influent, spirit, effective that he dominates audience that “I pretend for living you do not.” This proves his speech was spirit and knows the audience thought.

Leonardo was looking towards every audience but his body and hand motion is quite less. This shows that he is still nervous in front of leaders of world though the way he delivered his speech was fabulous. He clarified his purpose with the problems and then he explored that human are the reasons behind such problems and even human are responsible for making it better. Context was about the serious purpose  so speech was motivational.

References: 

Dwyer, J 2013, Communication for business and the professions: strategies and skills, Pearson Australia, Frenchs Forest.

The daily conversation (poster) 2014, Leonardo DiCaprio's 2014 UN Climate Summit Speech, viewed 20^th may 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka6_3TJcCkA