... apologizing, challenging, complaining, condoling, congratulating, declining, giving permission, giving way, greeting, leave-taking, mocking, naming, offering, praising, promising, proposing marriage, ... all parties have an area of communicative commonality. They are auditory means, such as speaking, singing and sometimes tone of voice, and nonverbal, physical means, such as body language, ... on. Stressing every single word, especially if the intonation is flat, can also make the speakers sound sarcastic. 4. Intonation This is another neglected area of language that can be usefully...