Couper-Kuhlen1998a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Couper-Kuhlen1998a |
| Author(s) | Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen |
| Title | On High Onsets and their Absence in Conversational Interaction |
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| Tag(s) | IL, Prosody, Telephone, Radio |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Journal | InLiSt - Interaction and Linguistic Structures |
| Volume | 8 |
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| Howpublished | Online PDF |
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Abstract
There are two questions to be asked when examining prosody in conversational interaction (see also Couper-Kuhlen and Selting, eds. 1996). First, what are the tasks which participants must accomplish in the type of speech event at hand? And second, what contribution, if any, does prosody make to the accomplishment of these tasks? In this paper I will tackle these two questions with respect to data gathered from approximately four hours of talk on a local radio phone-in program broadcast in Berkeley, California, during the Gulf War crisis in 1991. The speech event which recurs again and again in this data is something which might be labeled — for lack of a better term — ‘calling in on a radio phone-in program’...
Notes
also published as: Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (2001). Interactional prosody: High onsets in reason-for-the-call turns. Language in Society 30, 29-53.
