Chapter 11 Flashcards
(18 cards)
prosody
word used to describe all the variations in the voice that accompany speech and help to convey its meaning
Mehrabian’s formula for perceived attitude
.07verbal + .38vocal + .55facial
paralanguage
physical mechanisms for producing nonverbal vocal qualities and sounds = complex
intonation, pitch and speed of speaking, hesitation noises, gesture, and facial expression.
vocal characteristics and perception
findings hard to show that listener’s cannot always detect personality
speech rate/normal speech rate
125-190 words per minute
spectrogram/voiceprints
visual picture of a person’s speech
plot of vocal energy in different frequency bands a function of time
spectrogram/voiceprints
visual picture of a person’s speech
plot of vocal energy in different frequency bands a function of time
tag questions
it’s a nice day, ISNT IT?
hedges and qualifiers
“sort of, maybe”
disclaimers
“i don’t know, but,”
target effect
how we ought to talk to different kinds of people
ex: baby talk:motherse
turn yielding
signal that you are finished and giving the floor, “ya know, so, yeah”
turn requesting
stutter starts “i , i, i “
turn maintaining
exagerated
turn denying
reinforcement, pauses, looking away
filled pause
filled with some type of intonation such as um or uh
decreases quality, more shown in men
unfilled pause
superior, stylistic, greater problem solving, women
vocal clues
not how its said but WHAT its said
