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The syntax of modern tone indicators stems from /s, which has long been used on the internet to denote sarcasm. [4] This symbol is an abbreviated version of the earlier /sarcasm, itself a simplification of </sarcasm>, the form of a humorous XML closing tag marking the end of a "sarcasm" block, and therefore placed at the end of a sarcastic ...
Emotional prosody or affective prosody is the various paralinguistic aspects of language use that convey emotion. [1] It includes an individual's tone of voice in speech that is conveyed through changes in pitch, loudness, timbre, speech rate, and pauses.
Prosody is also important in signalling emotions and attitudes. When this is involuntary (as when the voice is affected by anxiety or fear), the prosodic information is not linguistically significant. However, when the speaker varies their speech intentionally, for example to indicate sarcasm, this usually involves the use of prosodic features.
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...
Sarcasm recognition and expression both require the development of understanding forms of language, especially if sarcasm occurs without a cue or signal (e.g., a sarcastic tone or rolling the eyes). Sarcasm is argued to be more sophisticated than lying because lying is expressed as early as the age of three, but sarcastic expressions take place ...
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Sarcasim_mark.png licensed with PD-textlogo . 2010-01-17T18:58:20Z J.smith 160x208 (11010 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=The "SarcMark" is used to emphasis sarcasm in a medium where tone of voice is not evident.
Babies and toddlers react in predictable ways to both the tone of someone's voice and the expression on their face. Children learn to trust certain voices, even before they can understand the ...
A labeled anatomical diagram of the vocal folds or cords. a particular part of the vocal range such as the upper, middle, or lower registers; a resonance area such as chest voice or head voice; a phonatory process; a certain vocal timbre; a region of the voice defined or delimited by vocal breaks