Analysing Conversation: An Introduction to Prosody

ISBN-13: 9780230223448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str.

Beatrice Szczepek Reed

Opis

Spoken interaction is impossible without prosody. Intonation, pitch register, tempo, rhythm, pausing, loudness and voice quality all contribute to the spontaneous negotiation process that is everyday talk.
This highly accessible introduction to the prosody and analysis of everyday conversation explains basic concepts and methods of interpretation using a wealth of examples from real-life conversations. Readers are introduced to the many conversational practices prosody plays a part in through sample analyses, all of which are available to listen to as downloadable audio files on the accompanying companion website: www.palgrave.com/analysingconversation
Packed with authentic examples, practical suggestions for analysis, suggestions for further reading and a helpful glossary, this clear and comprehensive guide is essential reading for students and researchers alike.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Preliminaries Pitch: Introduction Pitch: Intonation Pitch: Range and Register Time: Sound and Syllable Duration Speech Rate Speech Rhythm Pauses Loudness Voice Quality Outlook: Future Issues in Research on Prosody in Conversation Answers to Exercises Appendix: Transcription Conventions Glossary Notes Bibliography Index.

O autorze

BEATRICE SZCZEPEK REED is Lecturer in TESOL at the University of York, UK. She is the author of the monograph Prosodic Orientation in English Conversation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and numerous articles on prosody and talk-in-interaction. Her research explores prosody as an interactional resource, cross-cultural aspects of turn-taking, the interface between speech and singing, and teaching pronunciation to learners of English. Her main teaching specialisms are phonetics and phonology, conversation analysis and English pronunciation.