Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. List of contributors xix
6. Introduction
7. Prosody in interaction 3
8. Future prospects of research on prosody: The need for publicly available corpora 41
9. Part I. Prosody and other levels of linguistic organization in interaction
10. The phonetic constitution of a turn-holding practice 51
11. Rush-throughs as social action 73
12. Prosodic constructions in making complaints 81
13. The relevance of context to the performing of a complaint 105
14. Prosodic variation in responses 109
15. Retrieving, redoing and resuscitating turns in conversation 131
16. Doing confirmation with ja/nee hoor 161
17. Part II. Prosodic units as a structuring device in interaction
18. Intonation phrases in natural conversation 191
19. Making units 213
20. Speaking dramatically 217
21. Commentating fictive and real sports 239
22. Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction 243
23. Repetition and contrast across action sequences 263
24. Part III. Prosody and other semiotic resources in interaction
25. Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction 269
26. Double function of prosody: Processes of meaning-making in narrative reconstructions of epileptic seizures 295
27. Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun 303
28. Response tokens – A multimodal approach 333
29. Multiple practices for constructing laughables 339
30. Multimodal laughing 369
31. Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia 373
32. Further perspectives on cooperative semiosis 395
33. Author index 401
34. Subject index 403