Dimensions of voice and paralinguistic features

1. by: sonu goyal
B.Tech Biotech

2. INTRODUCTION
 NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION:-
includes facial expressions, tones of voice, gestures, eye
contact, spatial arrangements, patterns of touch,
expressive movement, cultural differences, and other
"nonverbal" acts.
 PARALANGUAGE:-
 Features that accompany speech and contribute to
communication but are not considered part of the
language system.
 The nonverbal voice qualities, modifiers, and sounds
which we use consciously or unconsciously supporting
or contradicting the linguistic, kinesic, or proxemic
messages either simultaneously or alternating with them.
 How something is said rather than what is said
 Vocal Cues

3. VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF NON
VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Paralanguage
Kinesics
Oculesics Haptics
Proxemics
Chronemics

4. GENERAL INFORMATION
 Paralanguage is part of nonverbal communication.
 Paralinguistics are what accompany your words to make
up its true meaning.
 According to Rozelle, Druckman and Baxter (1997), an
important factor in studying nonverbal behavior is the
difference between the encoder and decoder. The encoder
produces and relays the behaviors to be inferred. The
decoder accepts these behaviors and interprets them
based on his individual approach.

5. WHY DO WE STUDY NONVERBAL
COMMUNICATION?
 Nonverbal messages communicate emotions
 Nonverbal communication is strongly related to verbal
communication
 Without nonverbal communication you cannot not
communicate

6. MAJOR PROSPECTS IN THE STUDY OF
NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
The non-verbal communication can be categorized into
three major dimensions; namely positiveness, potency
an responsiveness.
 Positiveness refers to the assessment of other people or
objects that are described in terms of liking. revealed
through, for example, eye contact, forward lean, and
distance.
 Potency represents status or social control and is
revealed through hand and neck relaxation, sideways
lean, reclining angle and arm-leg position asymmetry.
 Responsiveness is a combination of activity and state of
alertness.

7. PROBLEMS OF STUDYING NONVERBAL
COMMUNICATION
 Nonverbal cues can be ambiguous
 Nonverbal cues are continuous
 Nonverbal cues are multichannel
 Nonverbal cues are culture-bound

8. WHAT IS PARALANGUAGE?
 Component of non verbal communication.
 Includes intentional and unintentional non verbal
messages.
 It may be – complementary, unconscious and
learned.
 They are the aspects of spoken communication that
do not involve words.
 Study of the non verbal cues and signals of the
voice.

9. CHARACTERISTICS AND CLUES OF
PARALINGUISTICS
 Some of them listed are-
 QUALITY
 VOLUME ,PITCH OR MODULATION OF VOICE
 SPEED OF VOICE(PACE/RATE/PAUSES)
 INTONATION
 TONE
 ARTICULATION
 PRONUNCIATION
 PUNCTUATION MARKS

10. DIMENSIONS OF VOICE
 “Your voice has the power to completely change
what others think of you.”
 The important 4 key elements defining voice
modulation are-
RESONANCE
RELAXATION
RHYTHM
PACING

11. SOME OTHER 12 ASPECTS OF TONE OF
VOICE ARE-
 Word length
 Sentence length
 Tempo
 Pronouns
 Conciseness
 Jargon
 Buzzwords
 Cliches
 Contractions
 Colloquialisms
 Obscure words
 Consider avoiding of mistakes and rule breaking

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