Paralanguage: A linguistic and interdisciplinary approach to interactive speech and sounds.

POYATOS, Fernando

ISBN 10: 9027235279 / ISBN 13: 9789027235275

Editore: John Benjamins, 1993

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• Titolo: Paralanguage: A linguistic and interdisciplinary approach to interactive speech and sounds.
• Editore: John Benjamins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9027235279
• ISBN 13: 9789027235275
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Brand New
• Peso: 1 chilogrammo

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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.