Appropriate use of voice and breath when speaking can not only fully express the intention and emotion of speaking, but also make the content of speaking vivid, interesting and full of artistic appeal.

Speech is a direct and important tool for us to exchange information, convey feelings, and understand others. It expresses people's thoughts, feelings, ideals and behaviors, but whether your inner feelings and thought activities can be well accepted by others depends on whether the tone of your oral expression makes people feel pleasant and friendly. Can the sound and breath give people a comfortable feeling?

Appropriate use of voice and breath can not only fully express the intention and emotion of speech, but also make the speech vivid, interesting and full of artistic appeal. In the movie "Middle Age", there is a dialogue describing love:

"Do you like poetry?" Fu Jiajie asked Lu Wenting.

"I? I don't understand poetry, and I rarely read poetry." Lu Wenting said with a hint of ridicule, "In our eye surgery, we are very strict about every stitch and thread, and we can't have any illusions. "

"No, your work is the most beautiful poem." Fu Jiajie interrupted her and said enthusiastically, "You have made thousands of people see the light again."

We can see that at the beginning, Fu Jiajie talked with the girl on the topic of "poetry", but we did not expect that he was suspected of exposing his fault. The girl countered him with a sarcastic tone. Seeing that the communication was about to be hindered, Fu Jiajie immediately put aside the problem that the girl did not understand poetry, and instead sincerely and eagerly praised her work. With just one sentence, the gap between them was eliminated. It narrowed the distance between the two parties, communicated their emotions, gained the girl's favor, and finally won the girl's heart. It can be seen how important and critical it is to have the right tone and tone when talking!

Types of tone

Some language masters use the principles of phonemes and phonemes in phonetics to guide people when they speak. The psychological state and rules of using voice and breath, combined with the needs of speaking situations, have formulated more than ten rules about tone and tone. Let us use what tone and tone to express our own language on what occasion, and we can also use this to identify the tone of others' speaking and the connotation and meaning represented by the tone.

Soft and stingy: This tone shows the speaker's respect, humility, prudence and elegance. When talking to others, using it can shorten the emotional distance between people and close the relationship between the two parties. Sometimes, a little trouble can be avoided. However, it is not advisable to use it to publicly insist on opinions, refute others, defend justice and dignity, or express emphasis.

Li Sheng Qi: This tone is the tone used by people to summon, encourage, reason, emphasize and express their excitement. It can express the speaker's passion and rough and bold character and temperament. It is usually used to express extreme joy or impassioned attitudes and words.

Evil voices and evil spirits: Although everyone has a friendly and kind attitude, there are still people with evil intentions or things that are deeply disgusting. Whipping these ugly people or things with bad words and bad breath can serve as a warning, annoyance, hostility, hatred, contempt, and restraint. In addition, it can also vent the interlocutor's emotions such as dissatisfaction and anger.

Soft and harmonious voice: This kind of harmonious voice is like the soft spring breeze and bright moonlight, and like a gurgling stream flowing from the heart of the heart. It is relaxed and natural, kind and friendly, neither urgent nor slow, and can give The listener feels comfortable, comfortable, delicate,. An intimate, friendly, warm feeling.

People often use this voice and tone when asking for advice, asking, comforting, visiting and expressing opinions. It can promote the elegance and generosity of men and show the feminine beauty of women. Especially when expressing emotions, this use of voice and air has a charming charm of language.

Being humble: It contains the meaning of the low status of the speaker. It is a special way to show respect when speaking to someone with status, status, special background or whom you respect. The voice is gentle. However, people now often regard it as a sign of servility and cowardice.

Weeping and sad: When the speaker feels sad, angry, desolate, and sad, his words will be filled with unconscious weeping and sadness. For those who are good at performing, they can use this to express extreme sadness and arouse the pity and sympathy of the listener. The biggest feature of this kind of sound and qi is that there is more qi than sound.

Sigh: Life is not always full of sunshine, and there are often unsatisfactory things in life. Therefore, from time to time, people will encounter things that are worrying, unhappy, or beyond their control. Sighs can be used to vent the speaker's inner anguish and express regret, regret and guilt due to his incompetence.

However, under certain circumstances, sighing at some people with special backgrounds has a different meaning and interest.

Rough voice: In our daily work and life, it is inevitable that we will encounter some troubles or distress. Therefore, talking to Xiang Yitong in a rough voice is a good way to relieve oneself's worries. However, listeners are accustomed to associate rough voices with accusations, refutations, reprimands, contradictions, disgust, and complaints. Therefore, caution should be exercised when using this sound and energy.

Cooing and cooing: People who speak in this tone are often the ones who are favored. They speak cooingly to those who dote on them, which can express their delicate beauty just right. It can also win and inspire the love and affection of the beloved. It can be seen that this kind of snoring sound is actually the life rhythm of love and emotion.

Weird sound: This is a derogatory word. Because people are accustomed to regard the voices and sounds used by people they hate or dislike when speaking as strange sounds. However, in some situations, taking the opportunity to imitate the weird sounds of people you hate or hate can express the speaker's contempt and hatred, and play a role in sarcasm and ridicule.

Roaring loudly: This is a tone with a bold character. For example, in the era of the "Great Leap Forward", the iron man Wang Jinxi once said a famous saying: "When an oil worker roars, the earth will shake for three seconds." Shake." It can be seen that the speaker who shouted loudly showed their heroic spirit, strong will and determination.

In addition, it can express threats, accusations, anger, venting, etc., and can also play a role in strengthening awareness, exaggerating the atmosphere, and deepening the intensity of expression.

Swallowing the sound and bearing the breath: This tone is a conscious phenomenon of swallowing the sound. It usually expresses the speaker's psychological state and character traits such as guilt, fear, shame, regret, helplessness, cowardice, etc. The common sayings such as "I want to speak but stop" and "I want to speak but can't" also fall into this category to a certain extent.

Cold voice: Due to some special reasons, the speaker is sometimes unable or inconvenient to express his intentions and emotions openly and strongly with evil words. Therefore, a cold voice can replace an evil voice and become a "cold war" method for the speaker. In addition to indirectly expressing the meaning of bad words, it can also express dislike, ridicule, sarcasm, unwillingness, disapproval, etc.

Complaints and resentments: People who use this tone mostly use this tone to express their complaints, sorrows, and dissatisfaction when they encounter unfair, dissatisfying, and unpleasant people or things. , unhappiness and other emotions. To a certain extent, this is also a way to vent inner unhappiness and comfort yourself.

Hold your voice and breath: If you speak in this tone, it may be due to some special reason. The speaker unconsciously temporarily suppresses his voice and breath, or consciously closes his voice. This can often produce or create a certain desired speaking effect. For example: attract, be attracted, respect, be cautious, etc.

The effect of tone

We know that different sounds and breaths express different thoughts, feelings and meanings. Therefore, when we speak, we should not only pay attention to the choice of words, but also choose the appropriate tone and tone. This is very important. Otherwise, no matter how beautiful the words are, they will lose their luster and are likely to arouse suspicion, jealousy, dissatisfaction, refutation, hostility, contempt and ridicule from the listener. All in all, when we use tones and qi, we must follow several principles of tone use:

Avoid ambiguity: While using tone, we must also know that the same words paired with different tones and qi often lead to confusion. will have different meanings. This is an ambiguity in language. For example, use the word "you damn ghost" as an example:

Use it in a soft voice, it means intimacy; use it in a cooing voice, it means flirting or pretending to be true love; use it in a loud voice Said with a loud voice, it means to signal the listener to take a certain action; said with a sigh, it means being forced to accept the other party's suggestions or actions; said with a rough voice, it means disgust, complaint, and accusation; said with a bad voice , it means anger, hatred, warning; said in a sinister voice, it means curse, etc.

Therefore, it is an important principle to use "sound and breath" appropriately, which can also avoid possible ambiguities.

Differential treatment: When we use tone and tone, we cannot ignore the age, gender, social status, cultural accomplishment and other factors of the person speaking, as well as the time and occasion of use. Different voices and moods should be chosen according to the above factors of the person speaking and different times and occasions. For example:

For elders, women, people with high social status or profound cultural accomplishment, you should use harmonious, soft and gentle, and peaceful and quiet, instead of shouting loudly, speaking loudly, or speaking harshly. A gruff tone.

If a wife uses cooing in front of her husband, it will often deepen the relationship between husband and wife. However, if the wife cooes at her husband in public, not only will it not arouse his interest, On the contrary, it will cause embarrassment and bring trouble to yourself.

Appropriate semantics: You must know that the specific meaning of a certain sound and breath is gradually formed during people's long-term use. This meaning has its own specific stability and is not subject to personal will. This is the semantic characteristic of speaking in a harmonious voice. We can only follow this characteristic and cannot arbitrarily violate it or change it according to personal likes and dislikes. For example:

We cannot express our tenderness with loud roars, we cannot use rough voices to praise others, and we cannot express our excitement with harsh voices. Otherwise, we will not be able to express our true intentions correctly and may even cause trouble and pain.

It can be seen that only by following the semantic characteristics of tones and auras and choosing appropriate tones and auras can we express our meaning well.

Be positive: We know that life’s path is not always easy. Everyone will have dissatisfaction, unhappiness, sadness, sorrow or regret.

People who respect and are good at life will not sink because of this, but can cheer up and become strong in life. Therefore, when we speak, the tone and tone we use should be positive, inspiring, and energetic. In this way, we can leave a good impression on others and enrich our own lives.

——Quoted from "The Complete Book of Practical Eloquence" by Yanbian People's Publishing House