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Listening For Implicit and Explicit Verbal Signals

The listener must pay close attention to both implicit and explicit verbal signals used by the speaker to understand the intended message. Implicit signals include elements like pitch, volume, stress, and pacing. Explicit signals include discourse markers, which are expressions that help connect different parts of the message. Some common discourse markers are gambits like "to get back to what I was saying" or "the most important thing is." Verbs and adverbs can also be used for emphasis through intensifiers that strengthen verbs and adjectives. Additionally, emphatic verb forms using do, does, and did add emphasis compared to simple verb forms.

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Listening For Implicit and Explicit Verbal Signals

The listener must pay close attention to both implicit and explicit verbal signals used by the speaker to understand the intended message. Implicit signals include elements like pitch, volume, stress, and pacing. Explicit signals include discourse markers, which are expressions that help connect different parts of the message. Some common discourse markers are gambits like "to get back to what I was saying" or "the most important thing is." Verbs and adverbs can also be used for emphasis through intensifiers that strengthen verbs and adjectives. Additionally, emphatic verb forms using do, does, and did add emphasis compared to simple verb forms.

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Listening for Implicit and

Explicit Verbal Signals


Why must the listener pay attention to verbal signals
used by the speaker?
Listening for Implicit and Explicit
Verbal Signals

The listener or the audience must be constantly


attentive to verbal signals whether direct or indirect,
and use them as aids in understanding the spoken
message and as standard in evaluating his or her
intended message
Listening for Implicit and Explicit
Verbal Signals
Along with verbal cues provided implicitly by pitch,
volume, stress, intonation, rate, and phrasing, explicit
signals like discourse markers are also used by the
speaker
Discourse markers include gambits, or expressions
used by the speaker to help the listener understand
the connection or relationship between the different
parts of the message
Listening for Implicit and Explicit
Verbal Signals
The following are only some of the most commonly used gambits:
Be careful not to… To get back to what I was saying….
I suppose… The most important thing is…
But don’t forget… You may not believe it, but…
To give you an idea… You cut the long story short..
To tell you the truth… It may sound strange, but…
Let’s face it! The truth of the matter is…
I’m convinced that… Not everyone will agree with me,
but…
But the real question is… Have you thought about…
Generally speaking… Let me put it another way…
But the problem is… Not to mention the fact that…
Listening for Implicit and Explicit
Verbal Signals
Some gambits are adverbs:
In other words
Anyway
In my experience
After that
Suprisingly
Ceertainly
Normally
Finally
On the whole
Frankly
Generally
Yes
Usually
No
Listening for Implicit and Explicit
Verbal Signals

Other direct verbal signals include repetition


and rhetorical question, two persuasive
techniques discussed in Lesson 2
Using Intensifiers and
Emphatic Tenses
How may verbs and adverbs be used for
emphasis in a sentence?
Using Intensifiers and Emphatic Tenses
The effectiveness of a sentence is heightened through emphasis
Consider the following pairs of sentences:
Daedalus warned his son not to fly too high.
Daedalus categorically warned his son not to fly too high

Icarus was tempted by the wide sky


Icarus was utterly tempted by the wide sky

The adverb categorically and utterly are called intensifiers. They


make sentences more emphatic by making verb stronger
Using Intensifiers and Emphatic Tenses
Intensifiers can also add emphasis to adjectives

Daedalus was absolutely faint of heart seeing his son’s torn wings
Icarus became undeniably reckless

The adverbs so, too, very, deeply, fully, completely, undoubtedly,


terribly, and extremely are just among many other examples of
intensifiers
Using Intensifiers and Emphatic Tenses
Read the next pairs of sentences
Minos deck his palace with the spoils of war
Minos does deck his palace with the spoils of war

Wings of wax melt in the sun


Wings of wax do melt in the sun

A dazed farmer gazed up to see Daedalus and Icarus in the sky


A dazed farmer did gazed up to see Daedalus and Icarus in the sky

The first sentence in each pair uses the simple form of the present
tense or the simple form of the past tense. The second sentence in
each pair uses the emphatic form of the verb. Like intensifiers, the use
of do, does, and did adds emphasis to a sentence

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