[mym1990]

I think you’re missing out on the almost infinite possibilities of how body language and tone can give off different moods or intentions of a person. But these cues aren’t often processed in a literal sense, our brain can pick things up without us knowing exactly why something is wrong or different, it just is. It’s very intuitive based I think.

[gjygj]

In that case a transcript of a conversation would be almost worthless since it's depriving us of the body language or the tone.

[mym1990]

Yes, I would say if you gave me a random transcript of a conversation, it would be pretty worthless without any additional context. We are talking about active communication here, not a record of communication happening at some point in time.