Body: Scholars who research "Oral communication" look at the process of expressing information or ideas by word of mouth.
A few scholars of "Oral communication" include Erik Palmer, Dr. Patricia Aufderheide, Dr. Guobin Yang.
Face-to-face conversations, Telephone conversations, Discussions that take place at business meetings are a few categories of "Oral communication".
Some motivations are understand how people inform, persuade, motivate and entertain.