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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 23:58:47
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction: Volume 156: Kohler

 


Title: Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech
Interaction: Volume 156 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics   156  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/phonetics-and-phonology/communicative-functions-and-linguistic-forms-speech-interaction-volume-156?format=PB 


Author: Klaus J. Kohler

Paperback: ISBN:  9781316621790 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 34.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316621790 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316621790 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

Prosody is generally studied at a separate linguistic level from syntax and
semantics. It analyses phonetic properties of utterances such as pitch and
prominence, and orders them into phonological categories such as pitch accent,
boundary tone, and metrical grid. The goal is to define distinctive formal
differentiators of meanings in utterances. But what these meanings are is
either excluded or a secondary concern. This book takes the opposite approach,
asking what are the basic categories of meaning that speakers want to transmit
to listeners? And what formal means do they use to achieve it? It places
linguistic form in functions of speech communication, and takes into account
all the formal exponents - sounds, words, syntax, prosodies - for specific
functional coding. Basic communicative functions such as 'questioning' may be
universally assumed, but their coding by linguistic bundles varies between
languages. A comparison of function-form systems in English, German and
Mandarin Chinese shows this formal diversity for universal functions.
 



Introduction; 1. Speech communication in human interaction; 2. Prosody in a
functional framework: the Kiel Intonation Model (KIM); 3. The representation
function; 4. The appeal function; 5. The expression function; 6. Linguistic
form of communicative functions in language comparison.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology


Written In: English  (eng)

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