Responses to statements
In most speech sessions we use some special response words, though they are not demanded by the speaker of the statements to which these are made.
These type of responses include:
- Oh!
- Mm
- Good
- Oh dear!
- I see.
These are made to represent an interest, surprise, pleasure, regret etc.
Even most of the cases we frequently use these to express that we are attending to our speaker’s statements. With the growth of telephone service, these kind of use have increased, as the response maker has to show his interest or reactions to the man at the other side, whom he can’t show it through his physical expressions. Hence he may use the words like Hmm, Errr, Hmm, Errr, Yeah just to compensate the visual expression needed to carry on a good conversation.
In use of modern communication techniques such as internet Chat, the use of emoticons, and smiley also represent such activity in the part of the listener.
Questions as responses to statements
These have the similar kind of function like the general responses to statements as we discussed above. Among such are:
- Why?
- What?
- How?
- Why not?
- Who for?
- Where?
Hesitant Fillers
We often use Hesitate fillers, i.e. some speech forms like um / /, err/ / while we think of what next to say. These are never appear in writing as , while writing we have plenty of time to plan and re-arrange our expressions. But as in the act of speech, there is virtually no time for that we use such words, phrases and sounds to gain time , while we plan for next expressions.
