Paralinguistic substitution signs

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of studying paralinguistic substitution units. The author focuses his attention on the interpretation of parakinesic units in various societies. A completely different phenomenon is observed when using ellipses that are not related to the linguistic context, but are included in the paralinguistic situation. For example, look! Can only be supported by a pointing gesture. The concretization of the meaning of this demonstrative pronoun occurs exclusively in the sphere of gesture indication, thanks to which it receives an unambiguous content.