Illocution, attitudes and prosody
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João Antônio de Moraes
Abstract
Through the analysis of an audio-visual corpus of Brazilian Portuguese prosodic attitudes, this paper describes the effect of attitude category on the prosodic realization of sentences. Attitudes that directly address the propositional content of utterances, which in fact correspond to new illocutions, were found to induce more changes in the acoustic signal than do those used to manage the social relationship between speaker and addressee. This difference is also reflected in perception, with the social attitudes mostly perceived through visual cues, while the propositional ones tend to be based on audio cues.
Abstract
Through the analysis of an audio-visual corpus of Brazilian Portuguese prosodic attitudes, this paper describes the effect of attitude category on the prosodic realization of sentences. Attitudes that directly address the propositional content of utterances, which in fact correspond to new illocutions, were found to induce more changes in the acoustic signal than do those used to manage the social relationship between speaker and addressee. This difference is also reflected in perception, with the social attitudes mostly perceived through visual cues, while the propositional ones tend to be based on audio cues.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction: Spoken corpora and linguistic studies 1
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Section I: Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
- Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation 27
- A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages 69
- Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora 84
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Section II: Multilevel corpus annotation
- The grammatical annotation of speech corpora 105
- The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese 129
- The variation of action verbs in multilingual spontaneous speech corpora 152
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Section III: Prosody and its functional levels
- Speech and corpora 191
- Corpus design for studying the expression of emotion in speech 210
- Illocution, attitudes and prosody 233
- Exploring the prosody of stance 271
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Section IV: Syntax and Information Structure
- Prosody and information structure 297
- The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotation 331
- Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory 365
- Prosodic constraints for discourse markers 411
- Appendix 468
- Index 496
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction: Spoken corpora and linguistic studies 1
-
Section I: Experiences and requirements of spoken corpora compilation
- Methodological issues for spontaneous speech corpora compilation 27
- A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages 69
- Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora 84
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Section II: Multilevel corpus annotation
- The grammatical annotation of speech corpora 105
- The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese 129
- The variation of action verbs in multilingual spontaneous speech corpora 152
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Section III: Prosody and its functional levels
- Speech and corpora 191
- Corpus design for studying the expression of emotion in speech 210
- Illocution, attitudes and prosody 233
- Exploring the prosody of stance 271
-
Section IV: Syntax and Information Structure
- Prosody and information structure 297
- The notion of sentence and other discourse units in corpus annotation 331
- Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory 365
- Prosodic constraints for discourse markers 411
- Appendix 468
- Index 496
