Interactional prosody: High onsets in reason-for-the-call turns  

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Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language in Society (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 30 no. 1 (Mar. 2001), page 29–53.
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The present study demonstrates how prosody – specifically, onset level – is deployed in situated interaction to cue frames of interpretation for talk. It shows not only that final pitch level in intonational contours is a rele- vant parameter, but also that, under certain conditions, initial pitch level may provide a situationally specific contextualization cue. In calls to ra- dio phone-in programs, for instance, there is a so-called anchor position where callers can be expected to announce the reason for their calls. Close empirical analysis of data from such a program reveals that it is here that the first turn-constructional unit is routinely formatted with high onset. The studio moderator displays an orientation to this kind of prosodic for- matting by withholding further talk until the caller has made a recogniz- ably complete statement of the reason for the call. On occasion, turn- constructional units in anchor position are heard to lack a high onset. When this happens, the moderator responds in a way that shows he is not treat- ing callers’ talk as the reason for the call, but rather as a preface to the statement of reason. (Prosody, intonation, conversational interaction, ra- dio talk, onset level, contextualization theory, multi-unit turn construction, spoken paratone)*

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