Live briefing
Everything about Paralanguage
Communication of additional meaning, nuance, or emotion in speech
Paralanguage, also known as vocalics, is a component of meta-communication that may modify meaning, give nuanced meaning, or convey emotion, by using suprasegmental techniques such as prosody, including pitch, volume, intonation, etc. It is sometimes defined as relating to nonphonemic properties only. Paralanguage may be expressed consciously or unconsciously. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ParalanguageA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Multimodal AI techniques for pain detection: integrating facial gesture and paralanguage analysisInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Norma v lingvistike i paralingvistikeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Paralanguage and social perception in computer‐mediated communicationCited 251 times
- Go sideways: Prosody (linguistics)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Symbolic communicationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The non-verbal elements of speech, and to a limited extent of writing, used to modify meaning and convey emotion, such as pitch, volume, and intonation
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Paralanguage and social perception in computer‐mediated communication
The paralanguage of caregiving: Baby talk to the institutionalized aged.
Textual paralanguage and its implications for marketing communications
Evolution and facial action in reflex, social motive, and paralanguage
Developmental changes in sensitivity to vocal paralanguage
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Paralanguage, Communication, and Education
Paralanguage Classifier (PARA): An Algorithm for Automatic Coding of Paralinguistic Nonverbal Parts of Speech in Text
PARALANGUAGE
🆕 Influential since 2022
Multimodal AI techniques for pain detection: integrating facial gesture and paralanguage analysis
Exploring the Impact of Emojis on Paralanguage in Social Media Communication among University Students
Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts
Paralanguage as a tool for shaping stress response in Listeners: Multimodal physiological sensing study
Paralanguage in the Translation of Children’s Graphic Novels into Arabic: Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Norma v lingvistike i paralingvistikeĖlla Germanovna Kulikova · 2004
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Prosody (linguistics) In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of those elements of speech, including intonation, stress, rhythm and loudness, that occur simultaneou…
- Symbolic communication Symbolic communication is the exchange of messages that change a priori expectation of events. Examples of this are modern communication technology and…
- Ingressive sound In phonetics, ingressive sounds are sounds by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose. The three types of ingressive sounds are lingual…
- Emotional prosody Emotional prosody or affective prosody is the various paralinguistic aspects of language use that convey emotion. It includes an individual's tone of voice…
- Kinesics Kinesics is the interpretation of body communication such as facial expressions and gestures, nonverbal behavior related to movement of any part of the…
- George L. Trager George Leonard Trager (/ˈtreɪɡər/; March 22, 1906 – August 31, 1992) was an American linguist. He was the president of the Linguistic Society of America…
- Utterance In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, by one person, before or after which there is silence on the part of the person…
- Interjection An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling, situation or reaction. It is a diverse…