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It depends on the context.

Usually, in linguistics, "paralinguistic noise" is an expression describing a noise you produce to mean something. It's not a word or a sentence, but everyone in your culture still understands what you mean.

In most Western cultures, for example, if you make a "shhhhh!" noise, the person in front of you will understand he/she needs to shut up. It's also understood that the louder the "shhh" sound, the quicker this person ought to shut it, or else.

Clearing the throat often means "give me your attention".

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