- manner of speaking, speech, delivery - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
--1 is a kind of expressive style, style
--1 is a part of paralanguage, paralinguistic communication
--1 has particulars:address; catch; tongue; shibboleth; tone, tone of voice; elocution; prosody, inflection; modulation, inflection