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  <Title>PARALANGUAGE IN COMPUTERMEDIATED COMMUNICATION</Title>
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6. CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A few conclusions can be drawn from this study. First, the presence of paralinguistic features in computer conferencing and the effort by users to communicate more information than can be carried by the words themselves, suggest that people feel it is important to be able to communicate tonal and expressive information. Second, it is not easy to communicate this information. Users must work in computer conferencing to communicate information about their feelings and state of health which naturally accompanies speech.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> While there does not appear to be a unified and identlfiable code of paralinguistic features within conferencing systems or among users of the systems, the collective behavior of participants may be creating one.</Paragraph>
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