Rossi2020
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Rossi2020 |
| Author(s) | Giovanni Rossi |
| Title | Other-repetition in conversation across languages: Bringing prosody into pragmatic typology |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Repetition, conversation, prosody, pragmatics, typology |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 49 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 495-520 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404520000251 |
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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.
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