Chapter 4
What the /fʌk/? An acoustic-pragmatic analysis of implicated meaning in a
scene from The Wire
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2Implicated meaning
- 4.3Combining pragmatic and acoustic analytical methods
- 4.3.1Pragmatics
- 4.3.2Acoustics
- 4.3.3Statistics
- 4.4Results
- 4.4.1Pragmatics
- 4.4.2Acoustics
- 4.4.2.1Formants
- 4.4.2.2Duration
- 4.4.3Statistics
- 4.5Summary
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Notes
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