This paper presents a qualitative analysis on the variations in the speaking style and in the meanings (paralinguistic information) carried by several interjections appearing in spontaneous speech. Analysis results show that part of the paralinguistic information carried by several interjections can be associated to their speaking styles. On the other hand, the effects of small differences in t...

1. Introduction In human communication, speech conveys not only linguistic information but also emphasis, intention, attitude and so on. They are called paralinguistic information [1]. There are several researches on paralinguistic information [2,3]. Methods for modeling or detecting of paralinguistic information is useful for various application in man-machine communication such as speech synt...

The use of voice quality features in addition to prosodic features is proposed for automatic extraction of paralinguistic information (like speech acts, attitudes and emotions) in dialog speech. Perceptual experiments and acoustic analysis are conducted for monosyllabic utterances spoken in several speaking styles, carrying a variety of paralinguistic information. Acoustic parameters related wi...

Patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) often show communicative-pragmatic deficits involving different expressive modalities, i.e. linguistic, extralinguistic and paralinguistic. Most previous research has evaluated pragmatic ability using linguistic tasks only, while the extralinguistic aspects of communication have received less attention. The aim of the present study was to provide a mu...

The shift to working from home, which has intensified due Covid-19, increased our reliance on communication technology and the need communicate effectively via computer-mediated especially text. Paralinguistic cues, such as repeated punctuation, are used compensate for lack of non-verbal cues in text-based formats. However, it is unclear whether these indeed bridge potential gap between writer’...

This paper examines the causes of frustration, and how speakers display their frustration in conversational arguments in terms of interactional organization, linguistic features, paralinguistic features, and embodied actions based on the method of discourse analysis. The expression of emotion is co-constructed by verbal cues, non-verbal vocal cues, and bodily behavior. The data presented here r...

The purpose of this study is to the theoretical provisions pragmalinguistics regarding advertising texts, describe their paralinguistic features and stylistic techniques in communication. objectives are: analyze domestic foreign practical scientific research field discourse texts; identify main positions approaches technologies communication; present classifications types English- language slog...