Speaker Cues: As a speaker, you regulate conversation through two major type of cues; turn-maintaining and turn-yielding. Turn-maintaining cues are designed to help you maintain the speaker's role, for example, by audibly inhaling to show that you have more to say, or continuing a gesture or gestures to show that you have not completed the thought. With turn-yielding cues you tell the listener that you're finished and wish to exchange the role of speaker for that of the listener, for example, you can indicate that you've finished speaking by dropping your intonation, by prolonged silence, by making direct eye contact with a listener.
- Turn-Maintaining Cues
- audibly inhaling breath to show you have more to say
- continuing a gesture to show you haven't completed your thought
- avoiding eye contact
- sustaining the intonation pattern to indicate that you're going to say more
- vocalizing pauses to prevent the listener from speaking
- Turn-Yielding Cues
- tell the listener that the speaker is finished and wishes to exchange the role of speaker for the role of listener