The empirical investigation suggests that speech rhythm patterns at turn transitions in everyday English conversation are not random occurrences or the result of a social-psychological adaptation process but are contextualization cues which ...
This book analyses and describes Speech and Thought Presentation (S&TP) in French from a broad theoretical perspective, building bridges between linguistic, stylistic and narratological frameworks that have until now been developed ...
This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings.
A collection of papers on discourse markers in different languages, presented at the fifth conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Mexico, in the summer of 1996.
This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings.
A collection of papers on discourse markers in different languages, presented at the fifth conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Mexico, in the summer of 1996.
Presents findings on rhythms in English speech, covering such topics as the isochrony debate, identifying isochrony, models of linguistic rhythm, speech rhythm at turn transitions, speech rhythm at sequence-external junctures and speech ...
This book, the first of its kind on the subject, considers the role that impoliteness has to play by drawing extracts from a range of discourse types (car parking disputes, army and police training, police-public interactions and kitchen ...