extraverbal
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
extraverbal (not comparable)
- Outside of speech; by other means than speaking.
- 1964, John Joseph Gumperz, Dell H. Hymes, The ethnography of communication, page 59:
- She can do it only by varying the messages transmitted through the extraverbal channels; through changes in muscular tension if she is holding the child, changes in facial set, gesture, or intonation.