Intonation Units Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intonation Units Revisited write by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten. This book was released on 2016-09-15. Intonation Units Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the potential circularity involved when studying their interface with other language-organizational dimensions. This volume advocates a way to resolve such problems: the ‘cesura’ approach. Cesuras, or breaks in the flow of talk, are created by discontinuities in the prosodic-phonetic parameters of speech that cluster to various extents at certain points in time. Using conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology, the volume identifies the parameters creating cesuras in talk-in-interaction and proposes ways to notate them depending on the researcher’s goal. It also offers a way to study the role of cesuras at the prosody-syntax interface non-circularly, which leads to new insights concerning language variation and change. The volume will thus be of major import to anyone working with natural spoken language, its chunks, its various dimensions, and its variation and change.
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language write by Shlomo Izre'el. This book was released on 2020-06-15. In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental.
Interactional Linguistics
Interactional Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interactional Linguistics write by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen. This book was released on 2017-12-21. Interactional Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way that linguistic units of varying size - sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, and particles - are mobilized for the implementation of specific actions in talk-in-interaction. A final chapter discusses the implications of an interactional perspective for our understanding of language as well as its variation, diversity, and universality. Supplementary online chapters explore additional topics such as the linguistic organization of preference, stance, footing, and storytelling, as well as the use of prosody and phonetics, and further practices with language. Featuring summary boxes and transcripts from recordings of everyday conversation, this is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on language in social interaction.
Building Categories in Interaction
Building Categories in Interaction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Categories in Interaction write by Caterina Mauri. This book was released on 2021-12-15. Building Categories in Interaction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic resources of various nature (prosodic cues, affixes, constructions, discourse markers, ...) can be ‘put to work’ in order to actively build categories in discourse and in interaction, to achieve social goals. This question is addressed in different ways by researchers from different subfields of linguistics, including psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, linguistic typology and discourse pragmatics, and a major point of innovation is represented in fact by the interdisciplinary nature of the volume and in the systematic search for converging evidence.
Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages
Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages write by Evangelia Adamou. This book was released on 2018-08-02. Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information structure theory, and which belong to the Afroasiatic, Amerindian, Australian, Caucasian, and Niger-Congo language stocks. In addition to the significant descriptive value of these pioneering contributions, several studies also draw attention to previously undescribed or typologically rare phenomena. By adapting a variety of methods to under-described and endangered languages, ranging from experimental to naturalistic corpus studies, this volume also aims to serve as an invitation for further research in this direction.
