Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521024105)

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.

Author: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
ISBN-10: 0521024102
ISBN-13: 9780521024105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2006
Pages: 484
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.08d