| Meaning | Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally. |
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| Example | "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt" |
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| Synonyms | speech, delivery |
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| Part of | paralanguage, paralinguistic communication | The use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings |
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| Narrower | address | The manner of speaking to another individual |
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| catch | A break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) |
| elocution | An expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture |
| modulation, inflection | A manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified |
| prosody, inflection | The patterns of stress and intonation in a language |
| shibboleth | A manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people |
| tone, tone of voice | The quality of a person's voice |
| tongue | A manner of speaking |
| Broader | expressive style, style | A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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