UPM-CALC/PJJ/CEL2102/PROJECT3 – WORKSHEET

CEL 2102 Effective Listening and Speaking

Project 3: Paralinguistic Features: What Else Are We Communicating?

Group: Group
Instructor: Mr.Jackson Wong

Name: Thivya D/O Raventharan Matric No. : J45997

Name of the TV show or movie: “Put it in Perspective" at the 2014 World

Championship of public speaking Semi Finals.
URL Link of TV show or movie: https://youtu.be/qlnKDoG3tdM
URL Link of Presentation:

Example 1
Paralinguistic / Non-verbal Feature: __ _Pause_______________

Time Description of Paralinguistic /

Purpose / Intention
reference Non-Verbal Feature
(2 mark)
(1 mark) (2 mark)
This signals that Character A is
Character A pauses in the middle
00:55-00:58 waiting for other characters to pay
of the sentence.
attention to him/her.

Example 2
Paralinguistic / Non-verbal Feature: __ _Stress Patterns & Rhythm____

Time Description of Paralinguistic /

Purpose / Intention
reference Non-Verbal Feature
(2 marks)
(1 mark) (2 marks)
The intention of the speaker in
The speaker stresses on the word stressing the word “he” is to indicate
01:25-01:38 “He” in this sentence: “He does that it is not someone else who thinks
not think it is a good idea”. it is a bad idea, the emphasis is
therefore on who.

Note:
1. Select one paralinguistic or non-verbal feature from the list given in the Description
Form.
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2. Identify three instances of the selected paralinguistic or non-verbal feature found in the
video and analyse the intentions or purposes for every identified instance.
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Student 1

Paralinguistic / Non-verbal Feature: Stress

Time Description of Paralinguistic /

reference Non-Verbal Feature
(1 mark) (2 marks)
The speaker stresses on the words
1:39-1:42 ‘missing’ in this sentence; She
have been missing for 37 hours
The speaker stresses on the words
2:43-2:47 ‘lot’ in this sentence; My mother
lost lot of blood.
The speaker stresses on the words
‘embarrassed’ in this sentence; I
3:19-3:24
had stop eating and felling
embarrassed.
Purpose / Intention
(2 marks)
The intention of the speaker stressing
the words ‘missing’ in this sentence is
to stress on that her mother missing for
37 hours.
The intention of the speaker stressing
the word ‘lot’ in this sentence is to
indicate that she worry because her
mother lost lot of blood.
The intention of the speaker stressing
the word ‘embarrassed’ in this
sentence is to indicate that she don’t
want to eat and feel embarrassed
because her mother have to share a
room with the army general