Prosody In Conversation: Interactional Studies

by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

2020-12-29 09:32:39

The essays in this volume are all analyses of prosody--primarily intonation and rhythm--and the role it plays in everyday conversation. Prosody emerges as a strategy deployed by interactants in the management of turn-taking and floor-holding; in the... Read more
The essays in this volume are all analyses of prosody--primarily intonation and rhythm--and the role it plays in everyday conversation. Prosody emerges as a strategy deployed by interactants in the management of turn-taking and floor-holding; in the negotiation of conversational activities such as repair, assessments, announcements, reproaches and news receipts; and in the keying of the tone or modality of interactional sequences. The material studied is taken not from constructed laboratory data but from genuine English, German and Italian conversations. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.51 X 1.14 in
Print pages484
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date February 13, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521024105

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