Rossi2020

From emcawiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Rossi2020
BibType ARTICLE
Key Rossi2020
Author(s) Giovanni Rossi
Title Other-repetition in conversation across languages: Bringing prosody into pragmatic typology
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Repetition, conversation, prosody, pragmatics, typology
Publisher
Year 2020
Language English
City
Month
Journal Language in Society
Volume 49
Number 4
Pages 495-520
URL Link
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404520000251
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title
Chapter

Download BibTex

Abstract

In this article, I introduce the aims and scope of a project examining other-repetition in natural conversation. This introduction provides the conceptual and methodological background for the five language-specific studies contained in this special issue, focussing on other-repetition in English, Finnish, French, Italian, and Swedish. Other-repetition is a recurrent conversational phenomenon in which a speaker repeats all or part of what another speaker has just said, typically in the next turn. Our project focusses particularly on other-repetitions that problematise what is being repeated and typically solicit a response. Previous research has shown that such repetitions can accomplish a range of conversational actions. But how do speakers of different languages distinguish these actions? In addressing this question, we put at centre stage the resources of prosody—the nonlexical acoustic-auditory features of speech—and bring its systematic analysis into the growing field of pragmatic typology—the comparative study of language use and conversational structure.

Notes