Main description:
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.
Table of contents:
- Preface & Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. From Movement to Sound: The Sign-Emitting Activities and Nonactivities of the Human Body as a Communicator
- 2. The Anatomy and Physiology of Vocal-Narial Sound Production: An Audible-Visual Approach to Language and Paralanguage
- 3. Language-Paralanguage-Kinesics: The Basic Triple Structure of Communication in Face-To-Face Interaction
- 4. Primary Qualities: The Speaker-Identifying Paralinguistic Features
- 5. Qualifiers: The Many Voices of Interaction
- 6. Differentiators: The Eloquence of Emotional and Physiological Reactions
- 7. Alternants: The Vocabulary Beyond the Dictionary
- Conclusion
- References
- Literary References
- List of Illustrations
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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.
Table of contents:
- Preface & Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. From Movement to Sound: The Sign-Emitting Activities and Nonactivities of the Human Body as a Communicator
- 2. The Anatomy and Physiology of Vocal-Narial Sound Production: An Audible-Visual Approach to Language and Paralanguage
- 3. Language-Paralanguage-Kinesics: The Basic Triple Structure of Communication in Face-To-Face Interaction
- 4. Primary Qualities: The Speaker-Identifying Paralinguistic Features
- 5. Qualifiers: The Many Voices of Interaction
- 6. Differentiators: The Eloquence of Emotional and Physiological Reactions
- 7. Alternants: The Vocabulary Beyond the Dictionary
- Conclusion
- References
- Literary References
- List of Illustrations
- Name Index
- Subject Index