Authors: Beatrice Szczepek Reed
ISBN-13: 9780230008724, ISBN-10: 0230008720
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: First Edition
BEATRICE SZCZEPEK REED is a Research Fellow at the Centre for English Language Education, University of Nottingham, UK. Her research and publications focus on prosody in natural conversation, turn-taking and the interface between singing and speech. Her current research explores teaching turn-taking to learners of English, and intercultural aspects of turn-taking.
Book Synopsis
This study is the first to describe and analyze prosodic orientation, a conversational strategy by which speakers design their speaking voice according to the vocal patterns used by their conversational partners. The analyses are based on instances of natural everyday talk. The book explores forms and functions of prosodic orientation, and offers a new perspective on prosody in conversation.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures x
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xii
GAT Transcription Conventions xiii
Prosody in Conversation 1
Introduction 1
Prosody defined 3
Previous approaches to prosody 10
The tonetic approach 10
Autosegmental-metrical phonology 13
Firthian prosodic analysis 18
Dwight Bolinger 21
The prosody of spontaneous conversation 21
Paradigms 22
Linguistic units for the analysis of prosody in conversation 27
The data 31
Preview 31
Prosodic Orientation 33
Introduction 33
Types of prosodic orientation 34
Prosodic matching 35
Prosodic non-matching 57
Prosodic complementation 61
Summary 64
Interactional environments for prosodic orientation 65
Prosodically orienting responses 65
Turn yielding prosodic orientation 78
Action-closing prosodic orientation 83
Summary 87
Conclusion 88
Stylized Prosodic Orientation 91
Introduction 91
Previous research on stylized prosody 92
Pike (1945) 93
Abe (1962) 93
Liberman (1975) 94
Gibbon (1976) 96
Ladd (1978) 98
Haiman (1989; 1990; 1994) 100
Flowe (2002) 101
Couper-Kuhlen (1999a; 2004) 102
Types of stylized prosodic orientations 103
Musical notes or intervals 104
Marked prosody 111
Stylization by repetition 123
Summary 126
Interactional environments for stylized prosodic orientation 127
Appreciation 127
Stylized voicing of imaginary figures 130
Conversational structures 135
Stylized interludes 140
Conclusion 147
Collaborative Productions: Orientation in Prosody and Syntax 150
Introduction 150
Previous research on collaborative productions 151
Sacks (1995) 151
Lerner (1991; 1996) 152
Ferrara (1992) 153
Ono and Thompson (1995) 154
Local (2000; 2005) 154
Types of collaborative productions 155
Types of projection 157
Completions and extensions 164
Collaborative productions as non-competitive early incomings 175
Interactional environments for collaborative productions 179
Collaborative productions in duets 179
Summary 185
Showing understanding 188
Borrowing 197
Eliciting information 201
Response tokens as one form of recipient reaction 202
Summary 207
Conclusion 208
Conclusion 209
Summary 209
Conclusion 211
Notes 213
Bibliography 219
Index 229
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