Research finds that a man is more likely to say he had had a good talk with someone if the talk had ranged over subjects like ________
A.economy
B.politics
C.sports
D.details of lives
A.economy
B.politics
C.sports
D.details of lives
A、willing to
B、willing for
C、reluctant to
D、reluctant for
Not only this, but, in many cases, the way someone speaks affects the response of the person to whom he is speaking in such a way that "modeling" is seen to occur. This is what Michael Argyle has called "response matching". Several studies have shown that, the more one reveals about oneself in ordinary conversation, and the more intimate these details are, the more personal secrets the other person will divulge.
Response matching, has, in fact, been noted between two speakers in a number of ways, including how long someone speaks, the length of pauses, speech rate and voice loudness. The correspondence between the length of reporters questions when interviewing President Kennedy, and the length of his replies has been shown to have increased over the duration of his 1961—1963 news conferences. Argyle says this process may be one of "imitation". Two American researchers, Jaffe and Feldstein, prefer to think of it as the speaker's need for equilibrium. Neither of these explanations seems particularly convincing. It may be that response matching can be more profitably considered as an unconscious reflection of speakers' needs for social integration with one another.
This process of modeling the other person's speech in a conversation could also be termed speech convergence. It may only be one aspect of a much wider speech change. In other situations, speech divergence may occur when certain factors encourage a person to modify his speech away from the individual he is dealing with. For example, a retired brigadier's wife, renowned for her incessant snobbishness, may return her vehicle to the local garage because of inadequate servicing, voicing her complaint in elaborately phrased, yet mechanically unsophisticated(不老练的) language, with a high soft-pitched voice. These superior airs and graces may simply make the mechanic reply with a flourish of almost incomprehensible technicalities, and in a louder, more deeply-pitched voice than he would have used with a less irritating customer.
What does the example of the English schoolboy in paragraph 1 indicate?______
A.Nowadays, English schoolboys are impolite towards people except towards their teachers
B.The way of asking time is different from that of earlier generations
C.People's speaking styles vary according to the different situations
D.People's ways of speaking are relatively stable on varying occasions
A、Men tend to respond to hearing of someone else’s problems by telling of their own problems.
B、Women tend to show that they understand the situation the other person is in and that they feel sympathetic.
C、Women are more likely to take it as a request for help.
D、Women tend to offer a solution, however pointless the solution might be.
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