UNIT

IV
Learning
Communicative
Strategy
The Art of Communication is the language of
Leadership

This quote is from James C. Humes, an author

and former presidential speechwriter, emphasizes
the relevance of communication skills in fulfilling our
roles and establishing good partnership in the world

In this unit, you will learn the different styles

of communication particularly speeches and how do
we apply it in our daily lives. This unit will also show
the major differences between informative,
persuasive, demonstrative, and entertaining speech.

At the end of this unit, you should be able to answer

the following questions:

1. What is a communicative strategy?

2. What is a speech?

3. What are the different types of speeches? How do

they differ from one another?

LESSON I: Types of Speech Context

1. Interpersonal
this refers to communication between and among people
and establishes personal relationship between and among
them.
EXAMPLES:

1. You spent the night thinking and analysing why a

student from the other class talked to you on the way home
and you decided it probably meant nothing.
2. You felt happy while thinking about how your teacher
appreciated you for submitting your project before the due
date and you reflected on why this was so.

2. Intrapersonal
this refers to communication that centers on one person
where the speaker acts both as the sender and the receiver
of the message. The message is made up of your thoughts
and feelings. The Channel is your brain, which processes
what you are thinking and feeling.
Solomon ang Theiss (2013) state that:
*The inter part of the world highlights how interpersonal
communication connects people.
*when people engage in interpersonal communication you
and another person become linked together.
*The personal part means that your unique qualities as a
person matter during interpersonal communication.

LESSON: 2 TYPES OF SPEECH

STYLES
What is a speech?

Definition of speech

1. a : the communication or expression of thoughts in

spoken words

b : exchange of spoken words : conversation

2. a : something that is spoken : utterance

b : a usually public discourse : address

3. a : language, dialect

b : an individual manner or style of speaking

4. : the power of expressing or communicating thoughts by

speaking
What is the
importance of
speech?

Speech development is an important part of

learning. When a person learns to speak correctly at an early
age they are more likely to more easily comprehend reading,
writing and less related topics like math and science. There
are many ways that you as a parent can help your child
develop proper speech patterns and language skills.
Concentrating on these things at home creates a good
foundation for early childhood education.

Learning to speak is a relatively organic process;

children hear their parents communicating with them and
others and absorb this speech through observation. Learning
to speak and understanding language is an essential part of
brain development. Through interaction, prompting, labelling
and even reading parents can help their children develop a
stronger and more advanced vocabulary.

Talking to your children and making them a part of

your conversations is the first step in language development.
Making them aware vocally of even the simplest things can
be a substantial part of their speech development. It is
important that you do not purposely use simple words;
children have the capability to learn complex words and
phrases if they hear them repeatedly used in context.

Reading is one of the oldest and most effective

ways for children to increase their vocabulary. Setting aside
a time each day to read to and with your children can
significantly increase their speech development. Pick age
appropriate stories, engage them with questions and let them
try reading when they want to.
Play interactive games like show and tell at home. These
games have your children using descriptive words more
frequently and help them with speaking aloud in front of
other. They also help feed a childs creativity.

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 TYPES OF SPEECH STYLES

1.)FROZEN STYLE
2.)FORMAL STYLE
3.)CONSULTATIVE STYLE
4.)CASUAL STYLE
5.)INTIMATE STYLE
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LESSON 2: TYPES OF SPEECH ACT

Speech Act

Understanding speakers intention

(In Dutch: taalhandelingen)

History and Orientation

Speech act theory is built on the foundation laid by

Wittgenstein and Austin. John Searle is most often
associated with the theory. Ludwig Wittgenstein began a line
of thought called ordinary language philosophy. He taught
that the meaning of language depends on its actual use.
Language, as used in ordinary life, is a language game
because it consists of rules. In other words, people follow
rules to do things with the language.

Core Assumptions and Statements

According to Searle, to understand language one must

understand the speakers intention. Since language is
intentional behavior, it should be treated like a form of action.
Thus Searle refers to statements as speech acts. The
speech act is the basic unit of language used to express
meaning, an utterance that expresses an intention. Normally,
the speech act is a sentence, but it can be a word or phrase
as long as it follows the rules necessary to accomplish the
intention. When one speaks, one performs an act. Speech is
not just used to designate something, it actually does
something. Speech act stresses the intent of the act as a
whole. According to Searle, understanding the speakers
intention is essential to capture the meaning. Without the
speakers intention, it is impossible to understand the words
as a speech act. There are four types of speech act:
utterance acts, propositional acts (referring is a type of
propositional act), illocutionary acts (promises, questions and
commands) and perlocutionary acts. A perlocutionary act can
be used to elicit some behavioral response from the listener.
Searle believes that speakers perform acts by observing two
types of rules: constitutive rules or definition rules (create or
define new forms of behavior) and regulative or behavior
rules (these rules govern types of behavior that already
exist).

Making a statement may be the paradigmatic use of

language, but there are all sorts of other things we can do
with words. We can make requests, ask questions, give
orders, make promises, give thanks, offer apologies, and so
on. Moreover, almost any speech act is really the
performance of several acts at once, distinguished by
different aspects of the speaker's intention: there is the act of
saying something, what one does in saying it, such as
requesting or promising, and how one is trying to affect one's
audience.

The theory of speech acts is partly taxonomic and partly

explanatory. It must systematically classify types of speech
acts and the ways in which they can succeed or fail. It must
reckon with the fact that the relationship between the words
being used and the force of their utterance is often oblique.
For example, the sentence 'This is a pig sty' might be used
nonliterally to state that a certain room is messy and filthy
and, further, to demand indirectly that it be straightened out
and cleaned up. Even when this sentence is used literally
and directly, say to describe a certain area of a barnyard, the
content of its utterance is not fully determined by its linguistic
meaning--in particular, the meaning of the word 'this' does
not determine which area is being referred to. A major task
for the theory of speech acts is to account for how speakers
can succeed in what they do despite the various ways in
which linguistic meaning underdetermines use.

In general, speech acts are acts of communication. To

communicate is to express a certain attitude, and the type of
speech act being performed corresponds to the type of
attitude being expressed. For example, a statement
expresses a belief, a request expresses a desire, and an
apology expresses a regret. As an act of communication, a
speech act succeeds if the audience identifies, in
accordance with the speaker's intention, the attitude being
expressed.
Some speech acts, however, are not primarily acts of
communication and have the function not of communicating
but of affecting institutional states of affairs. They can do so
in either of two ways. Some officially judge something the
case, and others actually make something the case. Those
of the first kind include judges' rulings, referees' calls and
assessors' appraisals, and the latter include sentencing,
bequeathing and appointing. Those in certain institutional or
social positions can perform Acts of both kinds only in certain
ways under certain circumstances.

1. Levels of speech acts

How language represents the world has long been, and still
is, a major concern of philosophers of language. Many
thinkers, such as Leibniz, Frege, Russell, the early
Wittgenstein, and Carnap (q.v.), have thought that
understanding the structure of language could illuminate the
nature of reality. However noble their concerns, such
philosophers have implicitly assumed, as J. L. Austin
complains at the beginning of How to Do Things with Words,
that 'the business of a [sentence] can only be to "describe"
some state of affairs, or to "state some fact", which it must do
either truly or falsely'. Austin reminds us that we perform all
sorts of 'speech acts' besides making statements, and that
there are other ways for them to go wrong or be 'infelicitous'
besides not being true. The later Wittgenstein also came to
think of language not primarily as a system of representation
but as a vehicle for all sorts of social activity. 'Don't ask for
the meaning', he admonished, 'ask for the use'. However,
Austin presented the first systematic account of the use of
language. In addition, whereas Wittgenstein could be
charged with having conflating meaning and use, Austin was
careful to separate the two. He distinguished the meaning
(and reference) of the words used from the speech acts
performed by the speaker using them.

Austin's attention was first attracted to what he called 'explicit

performative utterances', in which one uses sentences like 'I
nominate ...', 'You're fired', 'The meeting is adjourned', and
'You are hereby sentenced ...' to perform acts of the very sort
named by the verb, such as nominating, firing, adjourning, or
sentencing (see PERFORMATIVES). Austin held that
performatives are neither true nor false, unlike what he called
'constatives'. However, he came to realize that constatives
work just like performatives. Just as a suggestion or an
apology can be made by uttering 'I suggest ...' or 'I
apologize ...', so an assertion or a prediction can be made by
uttering 'I assert ...' or 'I predict ...'. Accordingly, the
distinction between constative and performative utterances
is, in Austin's general theory of speech acts, superseded by
that between saying something and what ones does in
saying it. This broader distinction applies to both statements
and other sorts of speech acts, and takes into account the
fact that one does not have to say 'I suggest ...' to make a
suggestion, 'I apologize ...' to make an apology, or 'I assert'
to make an assertion.

The theory of speech acts aims to do justice to the fact that

even though words (phrases, sentences) encode
information, people do more things with words than convey
information and that when people do convey information,
they often convey more than their words encode. Although
the focus of speech act theory has been on utterances,
especially those made in conversational and other face-to-
face situations, the phrase 'speech act' should be taken as a
generic term for any sort of language use, oral or otherwise.
Speech acts, whatever the medium of their performance, fall
under the broad category of intentional action, with which
they share certain general features (see ACTION). An
especially pertinent feature is that when one acts
intentionally, generally one has a set of nested intentions.
For instance, having arrived home without one's keys, one
might push a button with the intention not just of pushing the
button but of ringing a bell, arousing one's spouse and,
ultimately, getting into one's house. The single bodily
movement involved in pushing the button comprises a
multiplicity of actions, each corresponding to a different one
of the nested intentions. Similarly, speech acts are not just
acts of producing certain sounds.

2. Communicative and conventional speech acts

The examples considered thus far suggest that performing a

speech act, in particular an illocutionary act is a matter of
having a certain communicative intention in uttering certain
words. Such an act succeeds; the intention with which it is
perform is fulfilled, if the audience recognizes that intention.
This is not by magic, of course. One must choose one's
words in such a way that their utterance makes one's
intention recognizable under the circumstances. However, as
illustrated above, the utterance need not encode one's
intention. Therefore, in general, understanding an utterance
is not merely a matter of decoding it.

A specifically communicative intention is a reflexive intention,

of the sort characterized by H. P. Grice (see
COMMUNICATION/INTENTION). This is an intention part of
whose content is that it be recognized, indeed be recognized
partly on the basis that this is intended. Accordingly, it is an
intention whose fulfilment consists in its recognition. This
feature distinguishes acts of communication from most sorts
of acts, whose success does not depend on anyone's
recognizing the intention with which they performed. One
cannot succeed in running a marathon just by virtue of
someone's recognizing one's intention to do so, but one can
succeed in stating something, requesting something, etc., by
virtue of one's addressee recognizing that one is stating it,
requesting it, etc. This is success at the illocutionary level. It
is a further matter, a condition on the success of
perlocutionary act, whether the addressee believes what one
states or does what one requests.

Now Austin did not take into account the central role of
speakers' intentions and hearers' inferences. He supposed
that the successful performance of an illocutionary act is a
matter of convention, not intention. Indeed, he held that the
use of a sentence with a certain illocutionary force is
conventional in the peculiar sense that this force can be
'made explicit by the performative formula'. P. F. Strawson
argues that in making this claim Austin was overly impress
by the special case of utterances that affect institutional
states of affairs, and should have not taken them as a model
of illocutionary acts in general. Austin was especially strike
by the character of explicit performative utterances, in which
one uses a verb that names the very type of act one is
performing. For them he developed an account of what it
takes such acts to be perform successfully and felicitously,
classifying the various things that can go wrong as 'flaws',
'hitches', and other sorts of 'infelicities'. It is only in certain
conventionally designated circumstances and by people in
certain positions that certain utterances can have the force
they do. For example, only in certain circumstances does a
jury foreman's pronouncement of 'Guilty' or 'Not guilty' count
as a verdict, a legislator's 'Aye' or 'Nay' as a vote, and a
baseball umpire's cry of 'Y'er out' as calling a runner out. In
these cases, it is only by conforming to a convention that an
utterance of a certain form counts as the performance of an
act of a certain sort. However, as Strawson argues, most
illocutionary acts succeed not by conformity to convention
but by recognition of intention. They are not conventional
except in the irrelevant sense that the words and sentences
being use have their linguistic meanings by virtue of
convention (see CONVENTIONALITY OF LANGUAGE).

Strawson's argument raises a serious problem for theories

inspired by Austin's view. Consider, for example, the theory
advanced by John Searle, who proposes to explain
illocutionary forces by means of 'constitutive rules'
(conventions) for using 'force-indicating' devices, such as
performative verbs and sentential moods. The problem is
that the same sorts of illocutionary acts that can be perform
by means of such devices can be performed without them.
For example, one does not have to use a performative, as in
'I demand that you be quiet', or the imperative mood, as in
'Be quiet!', to demand someone to be quiet. Clearly a theory
that relies on rules for using such devices is not equipped to
explain the illocutionary forces of utterances lacking such
devices. No such difficulty arises for a theory according to
which most illocutionary acts are performed not with an
intention to conform to a convention but with a
communicative intention.

3. Types of speech acts

Pretheoretically, we think of an act of communication,

linguistic or otherwise, as an act of expressing oneself. This
rather vague idea can be made more precise if we get more
specific about what is being expressed. Take the case of an
apology. If you utter, '[I'm] sorry I didn't call back' and intend
this as an apology, you are expressing regret for something,
in this case for not returning a phone call. An apology just is
the act of (verbally) expressing regret for, and thereby
acknowledging, something one did that might have harmed
or at least bothered the hearer. An apology is communicative
because it is intended to be taken as expressing a certain
attitude, in this case regret. It succeeds as such if it is so
taken. In general, an act of communication succeeds if it is
taken as intended. That is, it must be understood or, in
Austin's words, 'produce uptake'. With an apology, this a
matter of the addressee recognizing the speaker's intention
to be expressing regret for some deed or omission. Using a
special device such as the performative 'I apologize' may of
course facilitate understanding (understanding is correlative
with communicating), but in general this is unnecessary.
Communicative success is achieved if the speaker chooses
his words in such a way that the hearer will, under the
circumstances of utterance, recognize his communicative
intention. So, for example, if you spill some beer on someone
and say 'Oops' in the right way, your utterance will be taken
as an apology for what you did.

In saying something one generally intends more than just to

communicate--getting oneself understood is intended to
produce some effect on the listener. However, our speech
act vocabulary can obscure this fact. When one apologizes,
for example, one may intend not merely to express regret but
also to seek forgiveness. Seeking forgiveness is, strictly
speaking, distinct from apologizing, even though one
utterance is the performance of an act of both types. As an
apology, the utterance succeeds if it is taken as expressing
regret for the deed in question; as an act of seeking
forgiveness, it succeeds if forgiveness is thereby obtained.
Speech acts, being perlocutionary as well as illocutionary,
generally have some ulterior purpose, but they are
distinguished primarily by their illocutionary type, such as
asserting, requesting, promising and apologizing, which in
turn are distinguished by the type of attitude expressed. The
perlocutionary act is a matter of trying to get the hearer to
form some correlative attitude and in some cases to act in a
certain way. For example, a statement expresses a belief
and normally has the further purpose of getting the
addressee form the same belief. A request expresses a
desire for the addressee to do a certain thing and normally
aims for the addressee to intend to and, indeed, actually do
that thing. A promise expresses the speaker's firm intention
to do something, together with the belief that by his utterance
he is obligated to do it, and normally aims further for the
addressee to expect, and to feel entitled to expect, the
speaker to do it.

4. Direct, indirect and nonliteral speech acts

As Austin observed, the content of a locutionary act (what is

said) is not always determined by what is meant by the
sentence being uttered. Ambiguous words or phrases need
to be disambiguated (see AMBIGUITY) and the references of
indexical and other context-sensitive expressions need to be
fixed in order for what is said to be determined fully (see
DEMONSTRATIVES AND INDEXICALS). Moreover, what is
said does not determine the illocutionary act(s) being
performed. We can perform a speech act (1) directly or
indirectly, by way of performing another speech act, (2)
literally or nonliterally, depending on how we are using our
words, and (3) explicitly or inexplicitly, depending on whether
we fully spell out what we mean.

These three contrasts are distinct and should not be

confused. The first two concern the relation between the
utterance and the speech act(s) thereby performed. In
indirection a single utterance is the performance of one
illocutionary act by way of performing another. For example,
we can make a request or give permission by way of making
a statement, say by uttering 'I am getting thirsty' or 'It doesn't
matter to me', and we can make a statement or give an order
by way of asking a question, such as 'Will the sun rise
tomorrow?' or 'Can you clean up your room?' When an
illocutionary act is performed indirectly, it is performed by
way of performing some other one directly. In the case of
nonliteral utterances, we do not mean what our words mean
but something else instead. With nonliterality the illocutionary
act we are performing is not the one that would be predicted
just from the meanings of the words being used, as with
likely utterances of 'My mind got derailed' or 'You can stick
that in your ear'. Occasionally utterances are both nonliteral
and indirect. For example, one might utter 'I love the sound
of your voice' to tell someone nonliterally (ironically) that she
can't stand the sound of his voice and thereby indirectly to
ask him to stop singing.

Nonliterality and indirection are the two main ways in which

the semantic content of a sentence can fail to determine the
full force and content of the illocutionary act being performed
in using the sentence. They rely on the same sorts of
processes that Grice discovered in connection with what he
called 'conversational implicature' (see IMPLICATURE),
which, as is clear from Grice's examples, is nothing more
than the special case of nonliteral or indirect constatives
made with the use of indicative sentences. A few of Grice's
examples illustrate nonliterality, e.g., 'He was a little
intoxicated', used to explain why a man smashed some
furniture, but most of them are indirect statements, e.g.,
'There is a garage around the corner' used to tell someone
where to get petrol, and 'Mr. X's command of English is
excellent, and his attendance has been regular', giving the
high points in a letter of recommendation. These are all
examples in which what is meant is not determined by what
is said. However, Grice overlooks a different kind of case,
marked by contrast (3) listed above.

5. Philosophical importance of speech act theory

The theory of speech acts has applications to philosophy in

general, but these can only be illustrated here. In ethics, for
example, it has been supposed that sentences containing
words like 'good' and 'right' are used not to describe but to
commend, hence that such sentences are not used to make
statements and that questions of value and morals are not
matters of fact. This line of argument is fallacious. Sentences
used for ethical evaluation, such as 'Loyalty is good' and
'Abortion is wrong,' are no different in form from other
indicative sentences. Whatever the status of their contents,
they are standardly used to make statements. This leaves
open the possibility that there is something fundamentally
problematic about their contents. Perhaps such statements
are factually defective and, despite syntactic appearances,
are neither true nor false. However, this is a metaphysical
issue about the status of the properties to which ethical
predicates purport to refer. It is not the business of the
philosophy of language to determine whether there are such
properties as goodness or rightness and whether or not the
goodness of loyalty and the rightness of abortion are matters
of fact. The above argument is but one illustration of what
Searle calls the 'speech act fallacy'. He also identifies
examples of the 'assertion fallacy', whereby conditions of
making an assertion are confused with what is asserted. For
example, one might fallaciously argue, on the grounds that
because one would not assert that one believes something if
one was prepared to assert that one knows it, that knowing
does not entail believing. Grice identifies the same fallacy in
a parallel argument, according to which seeming to have a
certain feature entails not actually having that feature (see
ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY).

For philosophy of language in particular, the theory of speech

acts underscores the importance of the distinction between
language use and linguistic meaning (see PRAGMATICS
and SEMANTICS). This distinction sharpens the formulation
of questions about the nature of linguistic knowledge (see
LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE), by separating questions
about capacities exercised in linguistic interaction from those
specific to knowledge of language itself. A parallel distinction,
between speaker reference and linguistic reference (see
REFERENCE), provokes the question of to what extent
linguistic expressions refer independently of speakers' use of
them to refer. It is common, for example, for philosophers to
describe expressions like 'the car', 'Robert Jones' and 'they'
as having different references in different contexts, but it is
arguable that this is merely a misleading way of saying that
speakers use such expressions to refer to different things in
different contexts.
LESSON 4: Types of speech according to purpose

In this lesson, we will explore the different types of

speeches base on their purpose of writing and their impact to
the listener. In addition, you will learn how to write them and
understand the basic concept upon making it.
 The four basic types of speeches are to inform, to
instruct, to entertain and to persuade. These are not mutually
exclusive to one another. You may have several purposes in
mind when giving your presentation. For example, you may
try to inform in an entertaining style. Another speaker might
inform the audience and try to persuade them to act in the
information.

Informative Speech

Activity: Let me present you something

Objective: to identify this style by creativity showing some

details of a certain things

Direction: Think of an object that you use daily and is

important for you.

Bring it in the class and try to introduce it to your

classmate and give some details about the object in your
hand. Tell them why it is important for you.

Questions:

1.) How do you find the activity?

2.) What are the techniques did you use to effectively

present the object?

3.) What is the impact or effect of your presentation to your

audience?

We did noticed in the activity that your main goal in

delivering your performance was to show and give details
and the object you have held. What you did in the activity
 was consider to be a speech because you have presented
information through vocal methods using syntactic
combinations of lexical and means that are drawn from your
vocabularies.

What is Informative Speech style?

Informative speech style is a fact-based speech

intended to teach its audience about a specific topic. This
speech serves to provide interesting and useful ideas and
knowledge to your audience, some examples of these are:

- A teacher telling students about the life of plants and

animals.
- A student talking about his adventures.
- A travelogue about the Power of London.

This strategy is important especially to those students under

senior high school and college because they will encounter a
lot of reporting case in most of their subjects.

Writing your informative speech

Before you begin delivering your speech, first you will have
to start writing down the outline of the text. It is necessary to
do so that your ideas and information are clear and organize
when you discuss it to the audience. This part will show you
some tips on making your informative speech.

1. Write a list of subject that match your knowledge and

experience. Try to make it interesting and unique (people
value originality and effort a lot).
2. Upon finishing choosing your subject, narrow it down to
topics.

3. Conduct a research to expand your topic and to add some

interesting ideas into topics.

4. When you are done in researching and you have already

sufficient information, organize them and connect all the
details to each other.

5. Write it down and do not forget to practice it before you

present it.

Practice Task

Direction: Write down a short informative speech then

present it in the class.

Subject: Science

Demonstrative Speech

Activity: I wonder how

Objective: to explain this style by making the student to

share how his work or hobbies done.

Direction: Think of an activity that you do every day. After

that, write the steps or procedure on how you are doing it,
and then demonstrate in class.

Demonstrative speech has many similarities with an

informative speech because they both present an information
about a certain topic. The difference is that the demonstrative
speech shows the audience how to do the things that you
are teaching.

The activity makes you to identify and demonstrate the daily

activity that you are doing in your life. We observed that
there is a sequence in your statements, meaning it is arrange
from the beginning down until the end.

Demonstrative speech is consist of steps, procedure, guide,

etc

Some examples of these are:

1. How to start your own blog.

2. How to make a cake.

3. How to write a speech.

Persuasive Speech

Activity: Convincing Personality

Objective: To explain this topic by means of convention

Direction: Think of an object that you like to buy and try to

convince your mother to buy it. Share your techniques in the
class.

Have you ever experienced the moment that you want to get
something but your parents refuse to buy it for you? Did you
ever try to convince others like your friends or other people
 around to do a favour for you? Well, this speech style has
something to do with it.

The word persuasion is the act or an instance of persuading.

It is about influencing others beliefs, attitude, and behaviour.

The speaker in a persuasive speech has a goal of convincing

the audience to accept his/her point of view. The speech is
design to such a way as to hopefully cause the audience
think, act or behave in the manner the speaker likes.

Entertaining Speech

In this style, the speaker provide pleasure and enjoyment

that make the audience laugh or identify with anecdotal

LESSON V: Types of Speech According to purpose

In this lesson, we will explore the different types of

speeches base on their manner of writing and their impact to
the listener. In addition, you will learn how to write them and
understand the basic concept upon making it.
 The following are the four types of speeches according to
manner
Manuscript
memorized
Impromptu
Extemporaneous
Definition of MANUSCRIPT

1. A written or typewritten composition or document as

distinguished from a printed copy; also: a document
submitted for publication <The library owns the author's
original manuscript.>
2. Writing as opposed to print

Definition of IMPROMPTU

1. 1: something that is impromptu

2. 2: a musical composition suggesting improvisation

The speaker in this type of speech has a limited time of

preparation or no preparation at all.

Definition of EXTEMPORANEOUS

1. Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the

moment : IMPROMPTU <an extemporaneous comment> (
2) : carefully prepared but delivered without notes or
textb : skilled at or given to extemporaneous
utterancec : happening suddenly and often
unexpectedly and usually without clearly known causes
or relationships <a great deal of criminal and delinquent
behavior is extemporaneous W. C. Reckless>

2. 2: provided, made, or put to use as an

expedient : MAKESHIFT <an extemporaneous shelter