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Paralinguistics-Paralanguage

What It Is?? Paralanguage  includes accent, pitch, volume, speech rate, modulation, and Fluency Some researchers also include certain non-vocal phenomena under the heading of paralanguage: facial expressions, eye movements, hand gestures, and the like. "The boundaries of paralanguage," says Peter Matthews, "are (unavoidably) imprecise." Although paralinguistics was once described as the "neglected stepchild" in language studies, linguists and other researchers have recently demonstrated greater interest in the field.   The rise in recent decades of non-face-to-face communication through email, text messaging, and social media led to the use of emoticons as a substitute for paralanguage. Etymology - From Greek and Latin, "beside" + "language" Paralinguistic Communication  Paralinguistics is the part of communication outside of the words themselves – the volume, speed, intonation of a voice along with g