Paralinguistic Means Research Articles

Situational Designations in "Glossoethnographic" Perspective

Soviet and foreign linguists and educators continually stress the importance of studying a foreign language within its cultural context. Accordingly, a new field of applied linguistics has emerged, at the borderline between linguistics and foreign language instruction, that we have termed glossoethnography [see 1, 2, 4, 61. This new area of linguistics has not yet sufficiently delimited i t s subject matter: it abuts on other areas that are also relatively new and as yet ill defined, such as sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, linguistic typology (for the various definitions of these disciplines, see reference 7). The many interesting examples adduced in studies in this new area all deal with specific national features of linguistic means of expression (sometimes in combination with paralinguistic means). However, these specific features exist on different levels: there are the specific features of the real objects expressed in language, and then there are those of the linguisti...

Verbal communications and intensity of delivery

Kleiven, J. Verbal communications and intensity of delivery. Scand. J. Psychol., 1973, 14, 111–113.‐Five groups of Norwegian high‐school students were shown staged video‐taped interviews on a current political issue, in which the verbal content was identical while intensity of delivery by one and the same interviewee was varied through paralinguistic means. As judged from subsequent free description of the interview, subjects paid more attention to the verbal message and less to the speaker and his behavior under moderate than under high or low intensity of delivery. However, recall and recognition of the verbal content were unaffected by mode of delivery.