extralinguistic
Outside of language
Extralinguistic refers to factors outside language itself that nonetheless affect communication.
Tone of voice, facial expressions, gestures, and social context are all extralinguistic—they convey meaning but aren't part of the words or grammar: Extralinguistic cues often tell you more than what someone actually says.
Communicative body movement
- facial expressionEmotive muscle positioning
- toneQuality of sound
- intonationPitch variation in speech
- eye contactDirect visual connection
posture · proximity · touch · silence · pause · pitch · volume · tempo
Language-in-context study
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
- sociolinguisticsStudy of language variation
- ethnographySystematic study of peoples
- semioticsStudy of signs, symbols
paralanguage · prosody · register · code-switching · contextualization · presupposition · turn-taking · frame
Implied sense, not dictionary
- implicationIndirect suggestion or consequence
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
- subtextImplicit meaning beneath words
- nuanceSlight shade of difference
allusion · symbolism · interpretation · signification · reference · denotation · sense · intention
gesture
Communicative body movement
- facial expressionEmotive muscle positioning
- toneQuality of sound
- intonationPitch variation in speech
eye contact · posture · proximity · touch · silence · pause · pitch · volume · tempo · rhythm
pragmatics
Language-in-context study
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
- sociolinguisticsStudy of language variation
- ethnographySystematic study of peoples
semiotics · paralanguage · prosody · register · code-switching · contextualization · presupposition · turn-taking · frame · schema
connotation
Implied sense, not dictionary
- implicationIndirect suggestion or consequence
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
- subtextImplicit meaning beneath words
nuance · allusion · symbolism · interpretation · signification · reference · denotation · sense · intention · implied meaning
extralinguisticlinguistic
Concerning language study
verbal · semantic · grammatical · lexical · syntactic
language, linguist, bilingual, linguistic, linguistics, multilingual, lingual, monolingual, linguistically