mannercharacterized
Mannercharacterized is a proposed term used in discussions of discourse and performance to describe a phenomenon where the interpretation of a statement rests more on the manner of its presentation than on its explicit content. In a mannercharacterized utterance, features such as tone, tempo, rhythm, gesture, eye contact, and audience orientation can carry evaluative or interpretive weight that outweighs the propositional meaning.
Etymology and usage: The word is a blend of manner and characterized, reflecting a focus on how
Applications: In literary analysis, a character or narrator may be described as mannercharacterized when their expressiveness—cadence,
Relation to related concepts: Mannercharacterized overlaps with ideas in indexicality, stance, and paralinguistics, which study how
See also: discourse analysis, prosody, paralinguistics, indexicality, stance, performance studies.