Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies: 12 (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 12)

Cambridge University Press, 7/11/1996
EAN 9780521460750, ISBN10: 0521460751

Hardcover, 484 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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.

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.