Prosody and iconicity
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Prosody and iconicity
（Iconicity in language and literature, v. 13）
J. Benjamins, c2013
- : Hb
Available at 10 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The contributions to this volume focus on the interrelation between prosody and iconicity and shed new light on the topic by enlarging the number of parameters traditionally considered, and by confronting various theoretical backgrounds. The parameters taken into account include socio-linguistic criteria (age, sex, socio-economic category, region); different kinds of speech situation; affect (attitudes and emotions); gestures; morpho-syntactic constraints. The analysis is pursued in theoretical frameworks such as Information Structure theory, Grice's theory, Relevance theory, experiential blending, Gussenhoven's biological codes, prosodic modelling, automatic detection. The languages covered include English, French, Italian, Swedish, Egyptian Arabic, and Majorcan Catalan. The book will be of great interest to linguists working on prosody.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Hancil, Sylvie)
- 2. Prosodic iconicity and experiential blending (by Auchlin, Antoine)
- 3. Emotional expressions as communicative signals (by Xu, Yi)
- 4. Peak alignment and surprise reading: Is there any systematic correlation in Italian (Spoken in Florence)? (by Kellert, Olga)
- 5. Emotional McGurk effect and gender difference - A Swedish study (by Abelin, Asa)
- 6. Beyond the given: An enunciative approach to the prosody of thematicity in English (by Schaefer, Steven)
- 7. Pragmatic functions and the biological codes: Evidence from the prosody of sentence topic and focus in Egyptian Arabic declaratives (by Zarka, Dina El)
- 8. Pitch accent types and the perception of focus in Majorcan Catalan wh-questions (by Mar Vanrell, Maria del)
- 9. UK declarative rises and the frequency code (by Hirst, Daniel)
- 10. Iconic interpretation of rhythm in speech (by Prsir, Tea)
- 11. Iconicity of melodic contours in French (by Martin, Philippe)
- 12. A study of postural, mimetic and gestural indicators combined with prosodic indicators: Perceptions of attitudes in French on the basis of a visually enacted oral discourse (by Gosson, Veronique)
- 13. Automatic detection of emotion from real-life data (by Devillers, Laurence)
- 14. Prosody and phonemes: On the influence of speaking style (by Schuller, Bjorn)
- 15. Index
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