Paralanguage
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Paralanguage is a component of meta-communication that may modify or nuance meaning, or convey emotion, such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation etc. It is sometimes defined as relating to nonphonemic properties only. Paralanguage may be expressed consciously or unconsciously.
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See also
- Business communication
- Intercultural competence
- Kinesics
- Meta message
- Meta-communication
- Metacommunicative competence
- Prosody (linguistics)
- Proxemics
- George L. Trager, an American linguist
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