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Table 5 Converging paralinguistic and discourse semantic systems

From: Embodied meaning: a systemic functional perspective on paralanguage

Verbiage

Sonovergent

Paralanguage (‘prosodic’)

Ideational:

Ideation/Connexion

Concurrence

Ideational:

‘mimetic’

Interpersonal:

Tone

Resonance

Interpersonal:

‘expressive’

Textual:

Tonality, Tonicity, Rhythm

Synchronicity

Textual:

‘deictic’