Got prosody?
"In linguistics, prosody (from Greek προσῳδία, prosōidía) is the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech." (Wikipedia)
Seems "sing-song" is now a compliment, as researchers, (including those at something called the "Brain and Creativity Institute") find that those with lotsa musical inflection in their voices (and those who can perceive such) are more empathic. Meanwhile, verbal flatliners are emotionally tone deaf, so take heed.
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5 comments:
That is a very interesting observation to make about organic/naturally empathetic types. Thank you for bringing that to us out of an intimidatingly dry scientific journal. Now that you mention it, it makes a lot of sense. No wonder some people are 'fun' to talk to, even if they might not have a lot to say at the moment.
Kerouac liked the term, prosody, by the way, and one hopes we could consider him an empathetic type too.
Makes intuitive sense. And makes sense anecdotally.
oh come on. What? Are you dead? Keep writing.
The world needs this blog in 2011, needs empathy and redemption, all that stuff.
When we find a soulmate, we have complete implicit trust in the other. With that comes fear, because we open ourselves up to being hurt. Hopefully, we are brave enough.
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