副语言特征对语义的补足作用

The Supplementary Function of Paralinguistic Feature in an Utterance Meaning

人们在会话时，通常都伴有不同的手势、姿势、眼神、面部表情，或者变换句子的重音或采用不同的语调．这种伴随会话而出现的行为特征，语言学家称之为副语言特征．文中论述了在交际过程中，有声和无声副语言特征对语义的烘托和对会话涵义的补足作用．

Although we may not realize it, all of us communicate with one another nonverbally, as well as with words. We gesture with eyebrows or hands, meet someone else's eyes and look away, etc. These actions are not random and incidental, there is a system to them almost as consistent and comprehensible as language. But different peoples have different ways of making nonverbal communication, and therefore the studying of the paralinguistic feature of different nations should be of help in further understanding of what the speaker has said in the cross cultural communication. It is certainly true that paralinguistic features can generally make communication better and easier.