Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics

Thu Ngo is Lecturer in Language and Literacy in the School of Education at Australian Catholic University, Australia. Susan Hood is Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia. J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.Clare Painter is Honorary Associate in the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.Bradley A. Smith is Honorary Associate in the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia. Michele Zappavigna is Associate Professor in the School of the Arts & Media at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPhonological Transcription Conventions1. Embodied Meaning: A Systemic Functional Perspective on Paralanguage2. An Ontogenetic Perspective on Paralanguage3. The Semiotic Voice: Intonation, Rhythm and other Vocal Features4. Ideational Semovergence: Approaching Paralanguage from the Perspective of Field5. Interpersonal Paralanguage: Approaching Paralanguage from the Perspective of Social Relations6. Textual Convergence: Approaching Paralanguage from the Perspective of Information Flow7. Afterword: Modelling ParalanguageReferencesAppendicesIndex

This innovative theorizing of meaning-making via the facial expression, gesture, posture, body movement and vocal qualities such as loudness, pitch level and tension, that integrally complement spoken English discourse, provides new analytic frameworks to enhance research in social interaction in multiple disciplinary contexts – an indispensable resource for social semiotic research.