I'm curious about this. I know people who do copy accents, I do it a little myself but not losing my own underlying regional. But it must be a critical issue whether it is just accents or mannerisms. Perhaps attention to spoken detail helps pick up the accent. Poor non-verbal recognition means we shouldn't pick up mannerisms? Or maybe we do in the process of learning how to present non-verbal, by a bit of acting.
Hence I might venture to suggest there might be an interesting experiment here - whether people who copy accents copy mannerisms too? Or whether mannerisms are entirely separate?
I'm curious about this. I know people who do copy accents, I do it a little myself but not losing my own underlying regional. But it must be a critical issue whether it is just accents or mannerisms. Perhaps attention to spoken detail helps pick up the accent. Poor non-verbal recognition means we shouldn't pick up mannerisms? Or maybe we do in the process of learning how to present non-verbal, by a bit of acting.
Hence I might venture to suggest there might be an interesting experiment here - whether people who copy accents copy mannerisms too? Or whether mannerisms are entirely separate?
