Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance Assignment
COM200 Interpersonal Communication
Katherine Tracy
March 1, 2015
Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance Assignment
I found the article “shared talking styles herald new and lasting romance” to be quite interesting. There are many forms of communication and even more ways of one’s comprehension within a conversation. The article talks about conversation and the impact it has or can have in someone’s relationship and/or friendship. We communicate with many people on a day to day basis but the thought of compatibility with others never seems to cross our mind. It seems that people with similar talking styles are more compatible than those of different styles.
Communication between two people will never be effective if they are not paying attention to each other. Matching conversational styles stand to benefit people in any type of relationship. Verbal coordination is even more significant when the people have a romantic relationship. Actions of each partner also influence how much they will connect and relate with each other. Most couples in a romantic relationship connect through touch, emotional tones and other means. Even with the extensive analysis in the article, written communication such as email, messages and letters are not given much premise. Accordingly, the research may not have a clear system of such types of communication because of its limiting and rigid characteristic. Face to face communication is given premise in the article. People from different work places, gender or class tend to communicate differently. Function words are used to help them connect to each other.
The article also speaks on the studies done through speed dating where it was found that people of the “opposite sex are more likely to express mutual interest when using similar speaking styles than those who differ” (Bower, 2010).
The results of the language style matching test done...