Do you ever purposefully engage in signalling?
Signally is where you purposefully try to communicate something without explicitly saying it.
If you change the way you talk for a job interview you might be signalling your professionalism.
If you wear a sporting team jersey you might be signalling.
Or wearing religious attire.
I've changed my voice to signal.
Example, in Argentina I was always been hit up by salespeople in the street to go into the strip clubs. I'd gone in before and was accosted, basically forced to buy a $20 glass of coke (I escaped thankfully). So I wasn't go back. So when they'd harrass me I'd say "no me interesa" and they'd keep following me. Once I thought "how do I get them to leave me alone?" So next time they tried I said "no me interesa" in the gayest lisp ever. They didn't utter another word!
My other signalling was in Australia when this street guy tried to staunch me and my friends, walking up saying "what are you doing?" I put on my rough as guts, pack a day smoker, lifelong criminal voice, "nothing much mate, you?"
He physically pulled back like he'd seen a ghost and then asked me if Id seen police around the joint!π
The power of signalling.