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- noun The study of
paralanguage .
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Roughly 40 percent of what you communicate is achieved through the components of what’s called paralinguistics, the part of nonverbal communication that conveys emotions and attitudes through tone, pitch, volume, pauses, and throat clears.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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Roughly 40 percent of what you communicate is achieved through the components of what’s called paralinguistics, the part of nonverbal communication that conveys emotions and attitudes through tone, pitch, volume, pauses, and throat clears.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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Whodathunk that all those little gestures and movements that I add as I read aloud to my students actually have a NAME and their own field of study paralinguistics?
January 2006 Mary Lee 2006
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Whodathunk that all those little gestures and movements that I add as I read aloud to my students actually have a NAME and their own field of study paralinguistics?
Paralinguistic Mary Lee 2006
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Whodathunk that all those little gestures and movements that I add as I read aloud to my students actually have a NAME and their own field of study paralinguistics?
Archive 2006-01-01 Mary Lee 2006
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Another subset of paralinguistics or nonverbal language is vocalics.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Basically, words carry the message of a discussion; paralinguistics carries the emotion.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Basically, words carry the message of a discussion; paralinguistics carries the emotion.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Another subset of paralinguistics or nonverbal language is vocalics.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Basically, words carry the message of a discussion; paralinguistics carries the emotion.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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