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 | pp. vii–xvi

Prosodic iconicity and experiential blending

Antoine Auchlin | pp. 1–32

Emotional expressions as communicative signals

Yi Xu, Andrew Kelly and Cameron Smillie | pp. 33–60

Peak alignment and surprise reading: Is there any systematic correlation in Italian (Spoken in Florence)?

Olga Kellert | pp. 61–74

Emotional McGurk effect and gender difference – A Swedish study

Åsa Abelin | pp. 75–88

Beyond the given: An enunciative approach to the prosody of thematicity in English

Steven Schaefer | pp. 89–108

Pragmatic functions and the biological codes: Evidence from the prosody of sentence topic and focus in Egyptian Arabic declaratives

Dina El Zarka | pp. 109–126

Pitch accent types and the perception of focus in Majorcan Catalan wh-questions

Maria del Mar Vanrell | pp. 127–148

UK declarative rises and the frequency code

Daniel Hirst | pp. 149–160

Iconic interpretation of rhythm in speech

Tea Pršir and Anne-Catherine Simon | pp. 161–180

Iconicity of melodic contours in French

Philippe Martin | pp. 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 | pp. 193–218

Automatic detection of emotion from real-life data

Laurence Devillers | pp. 219–232

Prosody and phonemes: On the influence of speaking style

Björn Schuller | pp. 233–250

Index | pp. 251–252

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