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  2. Backchannel (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A backchannel response can be verbal, non-verbal, or both. Backchannel responses are often phatic expressions, primarily serving a social or meta-conversational purpose, such as signifying the listener's attention, understanding, sympathy, or agreement, rather than conveying significant information. Examples of backchanneling in English include ...

  3. 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%).

  4. Chronemics - Wikipedia

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    Chronemics is the study of the use of time in nonverbal communication, though it carries implications for verbal communication as well. Time perceptions include punctuality, willingness to wait, and interactions. The use of time can affect lifestyles, daily agendas, speed of speech, movements, and how long people are willing to listen.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Nominal sentence - Wikipedia

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    ar-rajul-u the man mudarris-u-n a teacher ar-rajul-u mudarris-u-n {the man} {a teacher} the man is a teacher AdjP predicate الرجل مريض ar-rajul-u the man marīḍ-un sick ar-rajul-u marīḍ-un {the man} sick the man is sick PP predicate الرجل في المدرسة ar-rajulu the man fī in l-madrasa the school ar-rajulu fī l-madrasa {the man} in {the school} the man is in the ...

  8. Function word - Wikipedia

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    'I', 'an', 'in', while non-function words usually are spelled with three or more (e.g., 'eye', 'Ann', 'inn'). The following is a list of the kind of words considered to be function words with English examples. They are all uninflected in English unless marked otherwise: articles — the and a.

  9. Nonfinite verb - Wikipedia

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    Non-finite verb forms in some other languages include converbs, gerundives and supines. The categories of mood, tense, and or voice may be absent from non-finite verb forms in some languages. [2] Because English lacks most inflectional morphology, the finite and the non-finite forms of a verb may appear the same in a given context.