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Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction: Volume 156

Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction: Volume 156

Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction: Volume 156 Hardback - 2017

by Klaus J. Kohler

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Hardback. New. Prosody in English, German and Chinese is outlined as a principal component of linguistic form for communicative functions in speech interaction.
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  • Title Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction: Volume 156
  • Author Klaus J. Kohler
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 318
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2017-10-26
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781107170728
  • ISBN 9781107170728 / 1107170729
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.43 x 0.78 in (24.08 x 16.33 x 1.98 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Versification, Functional discourse grammar
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017023080
  • Dewey Decimal Code 415.018
  • Quantity available 1

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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.

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