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  2. Function word - Wikipedia

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    Each function word either: gives grammatical information about other words in a sentence or clause, and cannot be isolated from other words; or gives information about the speaker's mental model as to what is being said. Grammatical words, as a class, can have distinct phonological properties from content words.

  3. Nonverbal communication - Wikipedia

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    E-mails, web chats, and the social media have options to change text font colours, stationery, add emoticons, capitalization, and pictures in order to capture non-verbal cues into a verbal medium. [11] "Non-verbal behaviours are multifunctional." [12] Many different non-verbal channels are engaged at the same time in communication acts and ...

  4. Nonverbal influence - Wikipedia

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    The major avenue for the communication of power, dominance, status. There are several avenues that display non-verbal behavior. These non-verbal expressions are conveyed through kinesics, proxemics, physical appearance and artifacts, and chronemics. Kinesics is a complex method in communicating dominance and status through eye contact.

  5. Indonesian slang - Wikipedia

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    Indonesian slang vernacular (Indonesian: bahasa gaul, Betawi: basa gaul), or Jakarta colloquial speech (Indonesian: bahasa informal, bahasa sehari-hari) is a term that subsumes various urban vernacular and non-standard styles of expression used throughout Indonesia that are not necessarily mutually intelligible.

  6. Albert Mehrabian - Wikipedia

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    Verbal: "I do not have a problem with you!" Non-verbal: person avoids eye contact, looks anxious, etc. It becomes more likely that the receiver will trust the predominant form of communication, which to Mehrabian's findings is the non-verbal impact of tone+facial expression (38% + 55%), rather than the literal meaning of the words (7%).

  7. Indonesian language - Wikipedia

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    The common word for "s/he" and "they" is ia, which has the object and emphatic/focused form dia. Bəliau "his/her Honour" is respectful. As with "you", names and kin terms are extremely common. Mereka "someone", mereka itu, or orang itu "those people" are used for "they". Regional varieties

  8. Nominal group (functional grammar) - Wikipedia

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    At group/phrase rank besides nominal group, there are also the "verbal group", the "adverbial group", the "prepositional group" (e.g. from under), and the "prepositional phrase" (e.g. from under the sofa). The term 'nominal' in 'nominal group' was adopted because it denotes a wider class of phenomena than the term noun. [6]

  9. Kinesics - Wikipedia

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    In a current application, kinesic behavior is sometimes used as signs of deception by interviewers looking for clusters of movements to determine the veracity of the statement being uttered, although kinesics can be equally applied in any context and type of setting to construe innocuous messages whose carriers are indolent or unable to express verbally.