Paralinguistics

I found the section on paralinguistics to be very intriguing. I think it may be one area of communication that is often taken for granted and often over looked. Because just as the delivery in a speech is important, so too are the characteristics in our everyday conversations. It’s important to remember that the way in which we vocalize our thoughts are of equal importance as the words in which we use to organize them. For instance, a sentence will take on different meanings depending on which words we choose to emphasize. Paralinguistics also accounts for the tone of voice that is used, as well as the pitch of a person’s voice. These often indicate the emotion behind the meaning of a sentence or illuminate the mood a person was in when the thought was vocalized. So many of these things seem to be overlooked but weigh heavily in our judgments and perceptions during the course of a conversation.