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

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"One example is when you're speaking a second, third... whichever language. If it's something you've learnt after your first language, which most people have done, then your vocabulary is less developed and whilst you may be fluent in basic conversational skills there are occassions when you can back yourself into a corner by trying to carry on a conversation like you would normally and then realizing that you don't actually know the particular word you were planning on using and have to think for a moment to replace the word."


"I think it's something we learn along with our conversational skills. It's developed as part of our vocabulary because as a child, we're mimicking the adult conversations we hear."