On Cultural Connotation Of Paralanguage

Paralangue means a kind of auxiliary no-language symbol system in the process of people's communication what is to deliver information, exchange thought, convey feeling by the means of some forms of human body and their changes; also includes other paralanguage models such as parasound and functional sound of language; it also calls "noiseless language"; "body language", "action language", "behavior language" and "no-language skill." .In communication, the main function of paralanguage is to assist sound language, express define information and fulfill communication process with sound language. So paralanguage, as a abundant and notable meaningful symbol system, implies a lot of information, what replaces language expression, assists information propagation, exchanges idea, conveys feeling, marks social relationship and adjusts communication effect.Paralanguage, as a symbol system to express meaning and feeling, integrates four parts: body language, clothing language conditional language and class language. As a new dual discirline, although late, paralanguage research has achieved notable fruits, including the foundation of complete academic system and the theoretical frame of paralanguage noumenon research. Author cherishes these fruits and regards these as the precondition for paralanguage noumenon research and believes that there still exists some new integration space which needs further study. In author's opinion, the antenna of paralanguage research should extend to different cultural levels. Under the context of board-sense culture, paralanguage research with the point of cultural relation and cultural connotation infers new theoretical conception from abundant language materials, excavating new academic meaning as well as the language law within the academic research.