paralexical
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- para- + lexical
- paralexicon + -al
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
paralexical (not comparable)
- Pertaining to, or communicated through, paralexicon (parallel vocabulary, e.g. ritual or secret cant, formal jargon)
- Pertaining to elements of speech beside the lexicon and grammar. Prosodic, paralinguistic.
- Aural communication includes spoken words and paralexical sounds (groans, screams, whimpers); sound effects (wind, a car starting up and driving away); and music.
- Jon Whitmore (1994) Directing postmodern theater: shaping signification in Performance, p. 14.
- The actual reading of the text itself is accompanied by certain common paralexical and extratextual features. The paralexical features are the intonational contours and stress patterns given the oral reading.
- David E. Van Zandt (2014) Living in the Children of God, p. 120.
- But the conventional nature of rhyme and metre, their essential arbitrariness, points to the fact that they themselves are also signifiers, albeit paralexical and to some extent parasyntactic.
- Andrew Taylor (1987) Reading Australian Poetry, p. 74.
- Gervinus speaks here not of literal music, but of those paralexical attributes of speech that often convey more emotion than words — intonation, pitch-level, volume, tempo, etc. […] Mussorgsky clearly desired to reduce the formal lexical content of the play to a bare minimum, leaving the greater room for paralexical play, that is, the "musical" qualities of speech.
- Richard Taruskin (1975) Opera and Drama in Russia: The Preachment and Practice of Operatic Esthetics in the Eighteen-sixties, Part 2, pp. 493, 497.