verbal message
collocation in Englishmeaningsofverbalandmessage
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verbal
adjective
uk/ˈvɜː.bəl/us/ˈvɝː.bəl/
spoken rather ...
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message
noun[C]
uk/ˈmes.ɪdʒ/us/ˈmes.ɪdʒ/
a short piece of information that you give to a person when you cannot speak to ...
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(Definition ofverbalandmessagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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An experimental study of the effects of repeating averbalmessageon gesture production.
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But in earlier times people looked at the material substratum of books, not merely at theirverbalmessage.
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Invitations are made through young people who in the past may have delivered averbalmessagefrom the host family but more frequently now carry a printed and copied invitation.
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The results from both experiments suggest that broader units of analysis beyond theverbalmessagemay be needed in studying children's continuing understanding of pragmatic processes.
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I understand that a simple warning device that can give averbalmessagecosts about £50 at present.
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Its onlyverbalmessageis an inscription on the back of one of the women.
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The wrong message can be established if the body language conveyed does not match averbalmessage.
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Speech-related gestures are intended to provide supplemental information to averbalmessagesuch as pointing to an object of discussion.
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The listener picks a figure (referent) on basis of theverbalmessageprovided by the speaker.
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Averbalmessageis the underlying meaning behind peoples words.
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In order to get to theverbalmessage, one needs to read into words and ask oneself what the desired or expected response would be.
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Finally, the stick having passed from one to the other of the old men present is handed to the messenger, who has received hisverbalmessagein connection with it.
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Yet rap songs foreground words and verbal messages, which can make it harder for dancers to concentrate on their footwork.
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I would have thought that a more fruitful hypothesis would be that gesture and language evolved together, with gesture as primarily a device to amplify (and sometimes contradict) verbal messages.
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The former refers to the tendency among teens to structure their verbal messages so as to draw attention to their feelings and the mood they are in.
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The former can take the form of verbal messages, light signals or markings on the road surface or tunnel walls.
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It is only in a comparatively small number of cases that verbal messages are sent out which are received by foreigners.
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Verbal messages are much more likely to be forgotten, when irrelevant, than information placed on a record card.
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Leakage refers to communicative incidents in which nonverbal signals betray the true content of contradictory verbal messages.
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