Prosody and Iconicity

Editors

Sylvie Hancil

| Université de Rouen

Daniel Hirst

| Laboratoire Parole & Langage, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université

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The contributions to this volume focus on the interrelation between prosody and iconicity and shed new light on the topic by enlarging the number of parameters traditionally considered, and by confronting various theoretical backgrounds. The parameters taken into account include socio-linguistic criteria (age, sex, socio-economic category, region); different kinds of speech situation; affect (attitudes and emotions); gestures; morpho-syntactic constraints. The analysis is pursued in theoretical frameworks such as Information Structure theory, Grice's theory, Relevance theory, experiential blending, Gussenhoven's biological codes, prosodic modelling, automatic detection. The languages covered include English, French, Italian, Swedish, Egyptian Arabic, and Majorcan Catalan. The book will be of great interest to linguists working on prosody.

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 13] 2013. xv, 252 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.13

Table of Contents

Introduction Sylvie Hancil	vii–xvi
Prosodic iconicity and experiential blending Antoine Auchlin	1–32
Emotional expressions as communicative signals Yi Xu, Andrew Kelly and Cameron Smillie	33–60
Peak alignment and surprise reading: Is there any systematic correlation in Italian (Spoken in Florence)? Olga Kellert	61–74
Emotional McGurk effect and gender difference – A Swedish study Åsa Abelin	75–88
Beyond the given: An enunciative approach to the prosody of thematicity in English Steven Schaefer	89–108
Pragmatic functions and the biological codes: Evidence from the prosody of sentence topic and focus in Egyptian Arabic declaratives Dina El Zarka	109–126
Pitch accent types and the perception of focus in Majorcan Catalan wh-questions Maria del Mar Vanrell	127–148
UK declarative rises and the frequency code Daniel Hirst	149–160
Iconic interpretation of rhythm in speech Tea Pršir and Anne-Catherine Simon	161–180
Iconicity of melodic contours in French Philippe Martin	181–192
A study of postural, mimetic and gestural indicators combined with prosodic indicators: Perceptions of attitudes in French on the basis of a visually enacted oral discourse Véronique Gosson	193–218
Automatic detection of emotion from real-life data Laurence Devillers	219–232
Prosody and phonemes: On the influence of speaking style Björn Schuller	233–250
Index	251–252

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Theoretical linguistics

Semantics

Pragmatics

BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2012049583 | Marc record