COMM 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Paralanguage, Sarcasm, Josh Lyman
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Paralanguage (or vocalics)- the study of communicative value of vocal behavior; paralanguage includes all oral cues in the stream of spoken utterances except the words themselves. Sarcasm- saying one thing and communicating something else (our words say one thing and we are communicating something else) Voice set- closely related to who the speaker is; such information helps us to interpret the. Categories of vocal behavior speaker"s words more accurately. Vocal characterizer- non-language sounds such as laughing, crying, whimpering, giggling, snickering, and sobbing. Vocal qualifier- qualify or regulate specific portions of the utterance; provide variety within a spoken sentence; include intensity, pitch height, and extent such as shhh, uh-huh, uh-uh, er, you know. Vocal segregate- non-words that are used as words; include vocalizations: voice printing- likely to become another means of identifying us in addition to, silence and pauses the use of fingerprints and dna analysis. Unfilled pauses, or silence- periods when vocal activity stops during the spoken utterance.
