Prosodic constructions in making complaints
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Richard Ogden
Abstract
What sorts of actions have phonetic exponents? Turn-taking and stance-marking can be handled phonetically: discontinuity (e.g. Couper-Kuhlen 2004a); prosodic stylisation (e.g. Ogden et al. 2004); and-uhm constructions (Local 2003); the use of ‘upgrading’ and ‘downgrading’ to mark types of agreement (Ogden 2006). Here I consider the linguistic construction of complaints based on a collection of complaints about third parties (Drew and Walker 2008). Two turn formats convey complaints. One format is designed to receive an affiliative response; the other is designed to close down a sequence. These turn types are phonetically distinct. Complaints are analysed as constructions: units of linguistic organisation that unite elements of linguistic form (including phonetics) with elements of meaning, including seeking affiliation and sequence management.
Abstract
What sorts of actions have phonetic exponents? Turn-taking and stance-marking can be handled phonetically: discontinuity (e.g. Couper-Kuhlen 2004a); prosodic stylisation (e.g. Ogden et al. 2004); and-uhm constructions (Local 2003); the use of ‘upgrading’ and ‘downgrading’ to mark types of agreement (Ogden 2006). Here I consider the linguistic construction of complaints based on a collection of complaints about third parties (Drew and Walker 2008). Two turn formats convey complaints. One format is designed to receive an affiliative response; the other is designed to close down a sequence. These turn types are phonetically distinct. Complaints are analysed as constructions: units of linguistic organisation that unite elements of linguistic form (including phonetics) with elements of meaning, including seeking affiliation and sequence management.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- Preface xi
- List of contributors xix
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Introduction
- Prosody in interaction 3
- Future prospects of research on prosody: The need for publicly available corpora 41
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Part I. Prosody and other levels of linguistic organization in interaction
- The phonetic constitution of a turn-holding practice 51
- Rush-throughs as social action 73
- Prosodic constructions in making complaints 81
- The relevance of context to the performing of a complaint 105
- Prosodic variation in responses 109
- Retrieving, redoing and resuscitating turns in conversation 131
- Doing confirmation with ja/nee hoor 161
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Part II. Prosodic units as a structuring device in interaction
- Intonation phrases in natural conversation 191
- Making units 213
- Speaking dramatically 217
- Commentating fictive and real sports 239
- Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction 243
- Repetition and contrast across action sequences 263
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Part III. Prosody and other semiotic resources in interaction
- Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction 269
- Double function of prosody: Processes of meaning-making in narrative reconstructions of epileptic seizures 295
- Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun 303
- Response tokens – A multimodal approach 333
- Multiple practices for constructing laughables 339
- Multimodal laughing 369
- Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia 373
- Further perspectives on cooperative semiosis 395
- Author index 401
- Subject index 403
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- Preface xi
- List of contributors xix
-
Introduction
- Prosody in interaction 3
- Future prospects of research on prosody: The need for publicly available corpora 41
-
Part I. Prosody and other levels of linguistic organization in interaction
- The phonetic constitution of a turn-holding practice 51
- Rush-throughs as social action 73
- Prosodic constructions in making complaints 81
- The relevance of context to the performing of a complaint 105
- Prosodic variation in responses 109
- Retrieving, redoing and resuscitating turns in conversation 131
- Doing confirmation with ja/nee hoor 161
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Part II. Prosodic units as a structuring device in interaction
- Intonation phrases in natural conversation 191
- Making units 213
- Speaking dramatically 217
- Commentating fictive and real sports 239
- Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction 243
- Repetition and contrast across action sequences 263
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Part III. Prosody and other semiotic resources in interaction
- Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction 269
- Double function of prosody: Processes of meaning-making in narrative reconstructions of epileptic seizures 295
- Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun 303
- Response tokens – A multimodal approach 333
- Multiple practices for constructing laughables 339
- Multimodal laughing 369
- Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia 373
- Further perspectives on cooperative semiosis 395
- Author index 401
- Subject index 403
