Whether a given communication practice is effective depends entirely on the context - including who you are, who you are speaking to, and what you hope to achieve by doing so.
Uptalk is commonly used as a mechanism for holding the (speaking) floor, and as a check on listener attention/understanding, among other valid applications in discourse. It's not new - documentation goes back at least 40 years, and it probably existed long before that.
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Using movie-watching fMRI and NLP, we show that prior social impressions shape how new social information is processed and updated over time, while moments of sudden insight ("aha"!) accompany transient shifts in brain activity that predict impression updates. (1/10)
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If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱
In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning.
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We applied hierarchical Bayesian modeling to an EMA dataset of emotion regulation to uncover how trait-like repertoires of emotion regulation relate to momentary emotion regulation and experiences of affect
We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…
By way of analog: speaking Spanish to monoglot English speakers would be a highly ineffective strategy for most commmunication goals. But I hope it's clear in that case that that is not because Spanish is an inherently "bad" communication practice - just ill-suited to the context.
As with vocal fry and creaky voice, the negative perception of uptalk is a manifestation of gendered language ideology, which stigmatizes linguistic practices that are (perceived to be) used more by women than men. Women get policed for it far more aggressively then men, despite men also using it.
If you're speaking to someone who holds a negative view of one of your habitual linguistic practices - like uptalk - then indeed it may make sense for some purposes (e.g., making a good impression) to alter that practice, at least temporarily.
