paralanguage
These paralinguistic features are denied to the writer.
Researchers paid close attention to the paralinguistic elements of the communication.
She could detect sarcasm based entirely on paralinguistic cues.

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paralinguistic
Punctuation in a sense corresponds to linguistic and paralinguistic features of spoken language such as gestures, voice intensity, pitch, and intonation.
This paper integrates sequential, interactional and phonetic analyses to provide an account of how 'paralinguistic' features create meaning.
Such signs as gesture, mimicry, movement, dialogue, the paralinguistic qualities of voice, and silence are integral to a given work and communicate something to someone.
The voice as such is still used for conveying paralinguistic information about the speaker and his state and attitude.
The big surprise here is that there is nothing on intonation and paralinguistic features, which are not transcribed in the corpus.
Thus, the visual channel is used for both linguistic and paralinguistic functions in signed language, but only for paralinguistic functions in spoken language.
They can be realized in discourse with expressive paralinguistic features.
It identifies linguistic and paralinguistic features by which these laminations are accomplished and shows how the parents in each family use the two different types.
Such paralinguistic signs add humor and a sense of face-to-face interaction to the message.
The interactive alignment account is good as far as it goes, but it must be embedded in a broader model encompassing alignment of paralinguistic representations.
Priority is given to an account of the strictly linguistic functions within this taxonomy, but generous coverage will also be found of intonation's paralinguistic role.
Recent research on tonal phonology, however, has convincingly shown that the apparent universality of paralinguistic meaning does not extend to all areas.
Paralinguistic cues and the rule of adjacency pair were common inferencing strategies.
These are features which tend to be left out of formal descriptions and assigned to the 'paralinguistic' rag-bag.
The communicative resources employed may include, among others, figurative language, special paralinguistic features, special formulae, and special codes.
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