There are the following basic properties of speech: content, clarity, expressiveness, influence.
Pithiness. It may be called the content, if it definitely set out one or the other question, if expressed in it thoughts and feelings are severe and profound. Conversely, superficial, empty, limited thoughts and feelings make language insipid.
Clarity. It due mainly to a set of knowledge of listener about the content that relates to speech of collocutor. It requires from listener the knowledge of terminology and special turns of phrase in this field. For example, a person with great difficulty will understand speech on college essay or mathematical topics, if he has no knowledge of mathematical terms and special expressions and turns of speech used in the field.
The expressiveness. This property is characterized by speech with emotional excitement. In its expression language can be bright, energetic or, on the contrary, listless, pale.
Influence of speech lies in its influence on the thoughts, feelings and will of other people, their beliefs and behavior.
Man is born with a potential capacity of speech, and the ability need to be developed.
An indispensable condition for the development of speech is a verbal communication of children with adults. Observations of children kidnapped or raised by animals (wolves, tigers), and then at 5-6 years of age returned to the human environment, show that language is not fully developed.
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