This document discusses paralanguage and how it differs from language and body language. It defines paralanguage as the non-lexical aspects of speech such as intonation, pauses, and voice quality. Paralanguage conveys additional meaning beyond the words themselves. While important, paralanguage is considered separate from linguistic communication. The document also compares paralanguage to body language, noting that body language analyzes whole body movements and postures, while paralanguage focuses on the vocal components of speech.

1. Dara Halaseh .
Amani Shaheen .
Zaina Abuhatab .
Supervised by Prof. Khaleel AL Bataineh.
Department of English Language &
Translation
 Amman Arab University

4. Paralanguage:
In the preceding section we have seen that the
use of language is characteristically vocal and
verbal behavior, involving the use of discrete
elements. But it can be used deliberately
(symbolically), too, e.g. as a warning. Similarly,
tempo, pause-length, voice-quality variations are
gradable, and however important and informative
they may be, they belong to paralinguistic rather
than linguistic communication.

5. It’s the non-lexical part of a speech, such as:
rising and falling intonations, gestures, facial
expressions.

6. Body language and paralanguage:
The main differences between body
language and lateral language are
that body language analyzes the
movements and postures of the
whole body while lateral language
notes the vocal components of
speech itself.

7. It is the spoken phonological language
that acoustically associated with, and
not of, a speech, but is complementary
to it and affects its meaning, such as
adding to, or even reflecting, meaning.
Also introduced was auxiliary language,
adjoining language, language
analogues, paralingualism or
paralingualism.