Speech, as a social activity, has never stopped from ancient times to the present, and it is increasingly valued and welcomed by people. The reason is that it has a strong social promotion effect. Both the speaker himself and the audience can be taught and inspired during the speech activities. The role of speeches is multi-faceted. According to the author's summary, there are roughly the following aspects:

1. The role of speeches on individuals

Speakers often speak in front of the public. As the number of speeches increases, this social activity is of great help to the speaker himself.

1 Promote growth

We all know that speakers are not born, but made. When we see those speakers speaking impassionedly on the stage, we will naturally be impressed by their grace. However, let’s not forget the saying “three minutes on stage, ten years off stage”. For people who often give speeches, in order to make their speeches more convincing and inspiring, the speaker must not only accumulate rich life experience, but also must continuously learn cultural knowledge and carry out long-term and arduous practice. Therefore, speech is a whetstone to promote growth. It not only allows the speaker to enhance his self-confidence, but also learns cultural knowledge and improves his expression ability.

2 Expand communication

People in social life need to communicate with each other, exchange opinions and exchange ideas, and speech happens to be an advanced form of social interaction. Public speaking can enhance understanding and deepen friendship between people, improve the quality of life and promote work. Therefore, an excellent speaker will often establish close friendships with others through speaking activities.

3 Show talents

In modern society, "the fragrance of wine is also afraid of the depth of the alley." Therefore, everyone must know how to "sell" themselves. And people who are good at "selling" themselves will win better positions and even gain ideal love. So how should you “promote” yourself? Speeches are a very "high-level" way of self-promotion. In this way, you can fully demonstrate your thoughts, emotions, values, character, abilities, etc. to the audience, so that your talents can be recognized by others and society, and lay the foundation for greater achievements.

4 Success in competition

Nowadays, government departments or business units in many countries often use speeches to compete for positions. If the applicant has extensive work experience and outstanding public speaking skills, he or she has a chance of getting the ideal position. For example, the former President of the United States, Mr. Obama, won the coveted position of president through passionate speeches.

5 Increase Contribution

American educationist Dale Carnegie once said: "Fifteen percent of a person's success depends on his professional knowledge, and the other percent Eighty-five, it depends on social skills, especially public speaking skills. "This sentence is very true. If a person is profound in thought, knowledgeable, and talented, but cannot speak clearly or clearly when speaking in public. , It doesn’t make sense. The dumplings are boiling in the teapot and cannot be poured out. That would be a pity. For example, writer Mao Dun and mathematician Chen Jingrun have achieved outstanding achievements in their fields, but their poor oral expression skills have affected their contributions to a certain extent. The modern writers we are familiar with, such as Hu Shi and Wen Yiduo, can not only write but also speak. Therefore, they can fully express their thoughts through multiple channels and display their talents 360 degrees. Therefore, when the ideas, knowledge, and abilities are almost the same, people who can speak and write can make much greater contributions to society than those who can only write.

2. The effect on the audience

The speaker delivers the speech to the audience, so relatively speaking, the effect of the speech on the audience is the main and considerable one.

1 Learn knowledge

Speech is a relatively advanced form of language expression, which can maximize the role of language in disseminating knowledge and exchanging experience. With the advent of the era of knowledge economy, people's desire for knowledge is becoming more and more urgent. As a speech that directly uses spoken language to communicate, it is more popular among people because of its economical, convenient and practical characteristics.

What is worthy of special mention is that speech stimulates people's senses in many ways. Both vision and hearing can be experienced at the same time. It highly mobilizes people's attention, fully promotes people's thinking activities, and makes the audience cognitive. , emotions, will and other aspects are affected, thereby deepening the understanding of the knowledge disseminated in the speech and enhancing the effect of learning. Therefore, speech has always been an important form of disseminating scientific knowledge and improving cultural literacy.

2 Obtaining the truth

A successful speech can not only convey a large amount of cultural knowledge, but more importantly, it can also tell the audience what is right and what is wrong. What is worth doing and what is a red line must not be touched. Therefore, the audience can distinguish right from wrong, obtain the truth, be influenced and inspired by the speech, and internalize it as their own life creed to guide their actual actions. Speeches are a good form of education for the broad audience, especially the young generation whose values, outlook on life, and world view have not yet been finalized.

3 Inspire action

The ultimate goal of a speech is not only to spread the truth and enlighten the soul, but also to promote action. That is to say, the speech must arouse the audience's high sense of responsibility for life, study and work, stimulate their initiative, enthusiasm and creativity, and make them devote themselves to social activities that transform the subjective and objective world. For example, during the 40 years he devoted himself to the democratic revolution, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the great pioneer of our country's democratic revolution, always used speeches as weapons to inspire and call on the people to join the democratic revolution. Many old people who participated in the Revolution of 1911 later recalled that the reason why they participated in the Revolution of 1911 was because they listened to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's exciting speech.

4 Improve aesthetics

Since speech is a perfect combination of oral language and gestural language, in order to achieve better performance effects, speakers also need to practice or practice repeatedly before speaking on stage. Try it out. For example, this gesture is not very elegant and must be removed; that sentence needs to be processed with a higher intonation, otherwise it will not achieve a shocking effect. Therefore, excellent speeches, like other stage arts, can not only spread truth and inspire people rationally, but also make people mentally happy and enjoy aesthetic enjoyment.

3. Effect on society

Society is a group organization composed of people, and the audience of the speech happens to be the people in the society. In this way, by analyzing social problems, overcoming social disadvantages, and determining social value orientation through speeches, we can achieve the role of coordinated social development.

1 Promote righteousness

The history of civilization in human society is actually a history of the struggle between truth, goodness, beauty and falsehood, evil and ugliness. And speech has always been one of the primary tools of this struggle. All righteous speakers in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, have used speech as a weapon to promote the truth, awaken the people, and promote social progress. For example, Pan Geng of my country's Shang Dynasty gave a speech in order to move the capital. He compared the old capital to a felled tree and the new capital to a newly sprouted bud, which made the people deeply aware of the significance of moving the capital. He readily accepted his political ideas and accomplished the great feat of moving the capital. It can be seen that correct speeches can enlighten people's hearts, promote truth, promote righteousness, and promote the development of social civilization.

2 Cultivate emotions

When speakers give speeches, they usually use correct moral emotions to infect and influence the audience, thereby also cultivating the audience's noble emotions, such as the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty. , collectivist emotions, patriotism emotions, revolutionary heroism emotions, etc. For example, Professor Li Yanjie, one of the four great orators of the Republic of China, repeatedly emphasized the importance of loving one's country and pursuing truth, goodness and beauty in every speech. One thing he often says is: If you can do big things, do big things; if you can't do big things, do small things; if you can't do small things, don't do small things; and you must never do bad things. Because Professor Li Yanjie's speeches are easy to understand and full of classic quotations, every speech he gave received warm applause from the audience.