From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)
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Sounding confident
From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)
Sounding confident
- I want to talk about something many of us do without even realizing it? It's very common? In fact, it's called high rising terminal? That's a fancy term for what most of us call uptalk. Uptalk is when we end sentences on up inflections. Uptalk undermines our authority and makes us sound uncertain because every sentence is ending with the equivalent of a question mark. My name is Jeff Ansell? Can somebody please confirm that? A study conducted years ago in Australia found that uptalk is twice as prevalent among young people as it is in older people, and even though men do it too, it's women who tend to engage in uptalk more often. The Australian researchers think women use uptalk more to facilitate conversation, thinking that it encourages others to participate in a conversation. Some people think, too, that uptalk is used to subtly let others know we're not quite finished speaking yet, thus discouraging others from jumping in and interrupting us. A professor by the name of Robin…
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