Paralanguage
A linguistic and interdisciplinary approach to interactive speech and sounds
| University of New Brunswick
This is the first interdisciplinary book-length treatment of paralanguage, briefly defined as: nonverbal vocal or narial communication. After sensitizing the reader to our sound-generating movements and to all human external and environmental sounds for their unquestionable communicative qualities, it realistically combines an anatomical-physiological auditory approach to voice production (identifying many neglected articulations) with the analysis of its visual manifestations as the triple reality of speech: language-paralanguage-kinesics. The primary qualities of speech (loudness, pitch etc.) are extensively discussed, as are the many voice qualities. The longest chapter in the book deals with paralinguistic differentiators: laughter, crying, sighing, yawning, coughing, sneezing etc. Finally the author presents a model for analyzing paralinguistic alternants, word-like independent constructs (such as Pooh, Aah and Brrr). Throughout the discussion of these paralinguistic phenomena, extensive attention is given to cultural, social and psychological aspects. This first, ground-breaking interdisciplinary work on paralanguage will serve as a source of data and a theoretical/methodological model for phoneticians, linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, speech therapists etc.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 92] 1993. xii, 478 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface & Acknowledgements | p. xiii
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Introduction | p. 1
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1. From Movement to Sound: The Sign-Emitting Activities and Nonactivities of the Human Body as a Communicator | p. 13
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2. The Anatomy and Physiology of Vocal-Narial Sound Production: An Audible-Visual Approach to Language and Paralanguage | p. 45
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3. Language-Paralanguage-Kinesics: The Basic Triple Structure of Communication in Face-To-Face Interaction | p. 121
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4. Primary Qualities: The Speaker-Identifying Paralinguistic Features | p. 175
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5. Qualifiers: The Many Voices of Interaction | p. 199
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6. Differentiators: The Eloquence of Emotional and Physiological Reactions | p. 245
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7. Alternants: The Vocabulary Beyond the Dictionary | p. 379
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Conclusion | p. 451
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List of Illustrations | p. 467
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Name Index | p. 469
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Subject Index | p. 473
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BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General