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November 08, 2005
Conversational Styles
There are so many different conversational styles. People can talk so differently and mean something completely different than what they say. For instance a person could say "you are so pretty" and really mean that you aren't, but to you it may seem that they mean what they say. This is shown a lot in the movie "Mean Girls" starring Lindsay Lohan where girls say something nice but really mean something evil.
Pauses are also important in speech. A pause in speech can mean that a person has nothing more to say to the person that they are talking to, or that they are waiting for the other person in the conversation to say something. I noticed that when I was talking to my friend who I've gotten to know for about two months that when we had nothing more to each we just sort of paused for a while and then resumed talking after we had thought about something else to say. Sometimes we even started talking at the same time after a long pause, because we had each thought of another conversation topic. However, pauses can be good because you don't really have to talk the whole time when you're having a conversation. Most people take pauses during speech to think about what they're going to say.
Speech can be determined on so many levels, and each part of it is so interesting.
--Yasmin
Posted by lcisperez at November 8, 2005 07:26 PM