manner of speaking

Noun
  1. Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally (synset 107085523)
    "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
    is a type of: 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
    subtypes:
    • address - the manner of speaking to another individual
    • catch - a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
    • tongue - a manner of speaking
    • 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
    • elocution - an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture
    • inflection, prosody - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
    • inflection, modulation - a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
    is a part of: paralanguage, paralinguistic communication - the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings
    same as: delivery, speech

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