paralanguage

Questions about paralanguage

What does paralanguage mean?

paralanguage means "the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings".

How many syllables are in paralanguage?

paralanguage has 5 syllables and divides as pa-ra-lan-gu-age under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for paralanguage?

Close synonyms include paralinguistic communication. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paralanguage a common word?

paralanguage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.