| 释义 |
non-ˈverbal, a.
[non- 3.]
a. Not employing or including words; unskilful in the use of words.
1927B. Russell Outl. Philos. xxiv. 271 This keeps us in the verbal realm, and does not get us outside it to some realm of non-verbal fact. 1934H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 181/2 Non-verbal test, a type of mental (generally intelligence) test, in which no words are used in the test content, but the directions for giving the tests may be either verbal or by pantomime. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie (1972) xv. 152 What I look for in any relationship is contact on the non-verbal level of intuition and feeling, that is, telepathic contact. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English i. 33 There may be many reasons, most of them cultural, why a child may appear ‘non-verbal’ in certain contexts.
b. Not employing or including a verb; not a form of a verb.
1932A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. iv. 219 Old Egyptian dispensed with the copula in more than one common sub-class of nominal or, as I prefer to call them, non-verbal sentences. 1965D. Ward Russ. Lang. Today iv. 102 Non-verbal predicators include нэ and нэт, as in Он нэ там He is not there. Ibid. v. 123 Прэд is productive, however, in non-verbal derivatives. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 49 In respect of their association with a verbal or non-verbal form in the sentence, the suffixes often alternate more or less freely.
So non-ˈverbalized ppl. a., not verbalized; non-ˈverbally adv., not verbally.
1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xxiv. 342 It is in the very nature of this type of nonverbalized experience that ordinary language..is insufficient to convey it. 1955J. L. Austin How to do Things with Words (1962) ix. 118 The means for achieving its ends non-verbally must be conventional. 1958B. Bernstein in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. Lang. (1968) 233 The child is born into a world in which personal qualifications are established non-verbally in the sense that the personal qualifications are left out of the structure of the sentences. 1961Countryman LVIII. iii. 462 Most of his waking life the berger is communicating with animals in grunts, cries and other non-verbalized sounds. |