This study examined the paralinguistic behavior of three presidential candidates in on-camera and on-mike speeches made during their campaigns. Using tape recordings, a detailed micronotation was made of candidates' paralinguistic patterns, both while speaking on-camera and on-mike and while speaking under circumstances that were not for a mass audience. Findings suggest that the on-camera/on-mike paralinguistic behavior of presidential candidates may be characterized as a code in which many patterns of speech common in everyday conversation, such as deletion, audible inhalation and exhalation, and contraction, are absent. An examination of the situational characteristics, or "frame," of the setting demonstrated that speaking behavior which takes place in a controlled studio environment may be manipulated through instructions and directional cues and may be altered in editing. Data support the hypothesis that candidates and their media advisers attempt to regulate and control the information acquired by the audience, to limit the range of meanings that paralinguistic behavior may have, and to minimize possible disruption of the projected image of the situation. (Author/KS)