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Abstract
The present article examines the linguistic characteristics of paralinguistic devices as they function within the English and Uzbek language systems. Special attention is directed towards prosodic patterns, kinesic elements, proxemic conventions and graphic markers employed in written discourse. A contrastive analysis reveals both universal tendencies and culturally specific regularities in the deployment of paralinguistic units across two typologically distinct languages. It is argued that paralinguistic means perform not merely an ancillary but a constitutive function in the organisation of communicative acts.
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