Prosody in Conversation
Subtitle: Interactional Studies (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
Contributors: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (Editor); Margret Selting (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9780521460750
Subjects: Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Prosodic analysis (Linguistics); Language Arts & Disciplines; Conversation And Discourse; Discourse Analysis; Social interaction; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Language; Phonetics & Phonics; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Conversation analysis; Reference; Linguistics; Prosodic analysis (Linguistics
First sentence: If prosody is understood to comprise the 'musical' attributes of speech - auditory effects such as melody, dynamics, rhythm, tempo and pause - then it is surely no exaggeration to state that a large part of this field has been left untilled by modern structural linguistics.