verbaaliset
Verbaaliset is a Finnish linguistic term used to describe phenomena related to words and spoken language, as opposed to nonverbal cues such as gestures or facial expressions. In this sense, verbaaliset covers aspects of communication that are realized through speech, including phonology, prosody, rhythm, intonation, lexical choices, and syntactic structure as they occur in oral discourse. The concept is often employed to distinguish the verbal dimension of communication from other modalities in multimodal and discourse-analytic research.
Etymology and scope: the word derives from Latin verbum (word) and has been adapted into Finnish as
Usage: Verbaaliset is used across linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and communication studies to focus on how
Limitations: The boundary between verbal and nonverbal can be fluid, because many communicative cues are integrated
See also: verbal communication, paralinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis.