A speech in the sense of a performance genre is a verbally presented unilateral verbal communication of one’s own thoughts in a coherent form formulated as prose, which is addressed to an audience consisting of a plurality of listeners.

A speech in the sense of a literary genre is a written text in the form of a prose, which serves as the basis for a orally presented one-sided verbal communication of one’s own thoughts in coherent form, which is directed at an audience consisting of a plurality of listeners.