Titre :

The prosody of discourse functions: The case of appositive relative clauses in spoken British English Corpus.

Auteur(s) :

Auran, Cyril [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Loock, Rudy [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Titre de la revue :

Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Pagination :

pp. 181-201.

Date de publication :

2011

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

appositive relative clauses
parentheticals
discourse
prosody
spoken English
Aix-marsec
ICE-GB

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [en]

This paper aims to explore how discourse functions and prosodic realisations can be related through an analysis of appositive relative clauses (ARCs) in English. Based on a corpus study of spoken British English through ...
Lire la suite >This paper aims to explore how discourse functions and prosodic realisations can be related through an analysis of appositive relative clauses (ARCs) in English. Based on a corpus study of spoken British English through the use of the Aix-Marsec and ICE-GB corpora, our aim is twofold: 1) to establish the singularity of ARCs within the global category of parentheticals; and 2) to show that, for one specific syntactic structure, in this instance ARCs, differences in discourse functions correspond not only to differences in morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics as proposed in Loock's (2005, 2007, 2010) threefold discourse typology, but also to differences in prosodic features (regarding tonal, temporal and intensity aspects).Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL