NOTES ON THE ROLE OF PROSODY IN CONVERSATIONAL DISCOURSE: EVIDENCE FROM ENGLISH AND SERBIAN TALK IN INTERACTION
Keywords:
prosody, conversation, turn-taking, talk-in-interactionAbstract
This paper examines the role of prosody in Serbian and English conversational discourse. The underlying assumption is that the investiga-tion of conversational prosody can yield deeper understanding of both prosody and conversational structure, but that it demands a different approach that is not based on sentence-level grammar. The corpus used consists of three recorded conversations in English and three in Serbian, transcribed using the conventions of DuBois et al. (1992, 2006). The results point to several systematic tendencies in the role of prosody in turn taking, as well as in the realization of interruptions and simultaneous speech. In this respect, notable similarities between English and Serbian are found. In a more general sense, it is argued that it has become necessary for speech prosody research to step beyond sentence-level models and take a more interactionally oriented approach.
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ДуБоа 2006: J. Du Bois, Comparison of transcription symbols, http://www. linguistics.ucsb.edu/projects/transcription/A04comparison.pdf, 25. 8. 2010.
ДуБоа и др. 1992: J. Du Bois, S. Schuetze-Coburn, S. Cumming and D. Paolino, Outline of discourse transcription. У: J. A. Edwards J. A. i M. D. Lampert M. D. (red.) Talking data: Transcription and coding indiscourse research, Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum, 45-89.
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Халидеј 1967: M. A. K. Halliday, Intonation and grammar in British English, Paris: Mouton.
Хачби и Вуфит 2008: I. Hutchby and R. Wooffitt, Conversation analysis: Studies from the first generation, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Kлат 1975: M. Klatt, Vowel lengthening is syntactically determined in connected discourse, Journal of Phonetics, 3, 129-140.
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Лехи сте и Ивић 1986: P. Lehiste and P. Ivić, Word and sentence prosody of Serbo-Croatian, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Mурата 1994: K. Murata, Intrusive or cooperative? A cross-cultural study of interruption. Journal of Pragmatics, 21, 385-400.
Петровић 1996: Д. Петровић, Фонетика – српски језик на крају века. У: М. Радовановић (ред.) Српски језик на крају века, Београд: Институт за српски језик САНУ.
Секс и др. 1974: H. Sacks, E. Schegloff and G. Jefferson, A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation, Language, 50, 696-735.
Шеглоф 1998: E. Schegloff, Reflections on studying prosody in talk in interaction, Language and speech, 41, 235-263.
Шеглоф 2000: E. Schegloff, Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation, Language in Society, 29, 1-63.
Шеглоф 2002: E. Schegloff, Accounts of conduct: Interruption, overlap and turn-taking. У: J.H.Turner (ред.) Handbook of Sociological Theory, New York: Kluwer, 287-321.
Taнен 1990: D. Tannen, You just don’t understand: Women and men in conversation, New York: Morrow.
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Богетић, К. (2010). NOTES ON THE ROLE OF PROSODY IN CONVERSATIONAL DISCOURSE: EVIDENCE FROM ENGLISH AND SERBIAN TALK IN INTERACTION. Nasleđe, 7(16), 205–220. Retrieved from http://nasledje.kg.ac.rs/index.php/nasledje/article/view/311
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