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Beyond the Particular: Prosody and the Coordination of Actions
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Szczepek Reed, Beatrice – Language and Speech, 2012
The majority of research on prosody in conversation to date has focused on exploring the role of individual prosodic features, such as certain types of pitch accent, pitch register or voice quality, for the accomplishment of specified social actions. From this research the picture emerges that when it comes to the implementation of specific…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Interaction, Speech Communication, Discourse Analysis
Pitch Contour Matching and Interactional Alignment across Turns: An Acoustic Investigation
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Gorisch, Jan; Wells, Bill; Brown, Guy J. – Language and Speech, 2012
In order to explore the influence of context on the phonetic design of talk-in-interaction, we investigated the pitch characteristics of short turns (insertions) that are produced by one speaker between turns from another speaker. We investigated the hypothesis that the speaker of the insertion designs her turn as a pitch match to the prior turn…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Intonation, Context Effect, Phonetics
The Efficacy of Communicative Fairness and Rhetorical Aesthetics in Contributions to Argumentation.
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Christmann, Ursula; Mischo, Christoph – Language and Speech, 2000
Deals with the effects of aesthetic quality and argumentational integrity or fairness on the persuasiveness of contributions to argumentation. Basic argumentative dialogs were varied in aesthetic quality via the use of figurative language and in fairness via the addition of faulty, insincere, or unjust arguments.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Persuasive Discourse, Speech Communication
Comprehending Speaker Intent in Rebuttal Analogy Use: The Role of Irony Mapping, Absurdity Comparison and Argumentative Convention.
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Colston, Herbert L. – Language and Speech, 2000
Investigated the role that irony mapping, absurdity comparison, and argumentative convention play in interpreters' derivations of speaker's intentions in using rebuttal analogies. Three rebuttal types were rated on argumentativeness and social attack in verbal conflict and nonverbal conflict scenarios. Results found that analogies with ironic…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Naming and Describing in Social Communication.
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Carroll, John M. – Language and Speech, 1980
Analyzes excerpts from eighteen of Robert M. Krauss's dialog transcripts in order to characterize the sequential and structural relations between naming and describing. Specifically, investigates how a referential description is shortened into a name through use, and what parts of antecedent descriptive phrases are selected to form the consequent…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis
Syllable Onset Intervals as an Indicator of Discourse and Syntactic Boundaries in Taiwan Mandarin
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Fon, Janice; Johnson, Keith – Language and Speech, 2004
This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intervals, Syllables, Foreign Countries