Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

401--5th period

Lexical Dysfluency and other communicative impediments

She lectures for a short time on the role of LD, i.e. people who rely on repetative meanignless sounds in speech. For example, um, uh, y'know, n'stuff.

"What purpose to these things hold in speaking? What do they indicate tot he receiver/ And most importantly, are they a habit? A tick? An annoying trait? Or do they say more than you'd imagine? Let's go gang."


[[bonus points for using LD in discussion today. snrk]]

Comments

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"I think that people use meaningless sounds like that when they want to stall for time to figure out how to word what they're trying to say," Allie said. "In my opinion, people speak without thinking far too often. If they, you know, paused to think about what they wanted to say before they started rambling, they wouldn't need to rely on the meaningless sounds."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Oh ya?" she leans back against the desk and sips her coffee, waiting.