Prosody in Conversation
Prosody in Conversation
Margret Selting, Universität Potsdam, Germany
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English, German, and Italian conversations, the prosody emerges here 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.
- Takes a genuinely empirical approach to the study of prosody in naturally occurring verbal interaction
- Advocates an innovative methodology combining insights from prosodic research, conversation analysis and contextualization theory
- Contains individual studies of the role of prosody with respect to turn-taking, activity sequences, tone and modality
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September 1996Hardback
9780521460750
484 pages
224 × 145 × 39 mm
0.755kg
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Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by John J. Cumperz
- Introduction
- 1. Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Margret Selting
- 2. On the prosody and syntax of turn-continuations Peter Auer
- 3. Ending up in Ulster: prosody and turn-taking in English dialects Bill Wells and Sue Peppé
- 4. Affiliating and disaffiliating with continuers: prosodic aspects of recipiency Frank Ernst Müller
- 5. Conversational phonetics: some aspects of news receipts in everyday talk John Local
- 6. Prosody as an activity-type distinctive cue in conversation: the case of so-called 'astonished' questions in repair initiation Margret Selting
- 7. The prosodic contextualization of moral work: an analysis of reproaches in 'why'-formats Susanne Günther
- 8. On rhythm in everyday German conversation: beat clashes in assessment utterances Susanne Uhmann
- 9. The prosody of repetition: on quoting and mimicry Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
- 10. Working on young children's utterances: prosodic aspects of repetition during picture labelling Clare Tarplee
- 11. Informings and announcements in their environment: prosody within a multi-activity work setting Marjorie Harness Goodwin
- Indexes.
