Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.
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- adjective Pertaining to, or communicated through,
paralanguage .
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Examples
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On page 18, your copy-reader dropped a "not" in my sentence about Zellig Harris, which should read: "Is it not a bit of a hoax not to accumulate in parallel the vast treasury of 'paralinguistic' speech which also somehow communicates?"
Lingustics Goodman, Paul 1964
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Its sophistication is in the "paralinguistic" part of its name: those gentle little quirks that make a human voice unique.
Fast Company 2009
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These sets of formal relationships -- such as a lilting perspective or a characteristic distribution of masses across the picture plane -- are isolated from their sources and given new life as structuring forces for Lapin's paralinguistic figures and spaces.
Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19) Bill Bush 2011
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These sets of formal relationships -- such as a lilting perspective or a characteristic distribution of masses across the picture plane -- are isolated from their sources and given new life as structuring forces for Lapin's paralinguistic figures and spaces.
Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19) Bill Bush 2011
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These sets of formal relationships -- such as a lilting perspective or a characteristic distribution of masses across the picture plane -- are isolated from their sources and given new life as structuring forces for Lapin's paralinguistic figures and spaces.
Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19) Bill Bush 2011
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These sets of formal relationships -- such as a lilting perspective or a characteristic distribution of masses across the picture plane -- are isolated from their sources and given new life as structuring forces for Lapin's paralinguistic figures and spaces.
Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19) Bill Bush 2011
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These sets of formal relationships -- such as a lilting perspective or a characteristic distribution of masses across the picture plane -- are isolated from their sources and given new life as structuring forces for Lapin's paralinguistic figures and spaces.
Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19) Bill Bush 2011
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These sets of formal relationships -- such as a lilting perspective or a characteristic distribution of masses across the picture plane -- are isolated from their sources and given new life as structuring forces for Lapin's paralinguistic figures and spaces.
Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19) Bill Bush 2011
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It's usually impossible to figure out what someone else is saying if you don't speak the language, and even facial and hand gestures—paralinguistic cues—can confuse.
A Sound Check For the Ages Daniel J. Levitin 2011
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These sets of formal relationships -- such as a lilting perspective or a characteristic distribution of masses across the picture plane -- are isolated from their sources and given new life as structuring forces for Lapin's paralinguistic figures and spaces.
Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19) Bill Bush 2011
bilby commented on the word paralinguistic
Of or pertaining to a tongue that jumps out of an aeroplane.
October 17, 2009