João Antônio de Moraes

List of John Benjamins publications for which João Antônio de Moraes plays a role.

Articles

de Moraes, João Antônio and Albert Rilliard 2016 Prosody and Emotion in Brazilian PortugueseIntonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. 135–152 | Article
This study addresses the production and perception of four emotions (anger, joy, sadness, and fear) performed in Brazilian Portuguese sentences of different modes: declarative (assertions), interrogative (yes/no questions), and imperative (orders). The results of an acoustic analysis and of… read more
Rilliard, Albert, Donna Erickson, João Antônio de Moraes and Takaaki Shochi 2014 Cross-cultural perception of some Japanese politeness and impoliteness expressions*Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context, Baider, Fabienne H. and Georgeta Cislaru (eds.), pp. 251–276 | Article
Prosodic strategies may express polite or impolite speech acts. Five such strategies in Japanese are studied in a cross-cultural experiment. The attitudes are presented to subjects in different modalities: audio-only, video-only, audio-video and also described in Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)… read more
de Moraes, João Antônio and Albert Rilliard 2014 Illocution, attitudes and prosody: A multimodal analysisSpoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies, Raso, Tommaso and Heliana Mello (eds.), pp. 233–270 | Article
Through the analysis of an audio-visual corpus of Brazilian Portuguese prosodic attitudes, this paper describes the effect of attitude category on the prosodic realization of sentences. Attitudes that directly address the propositional content of utterances, which in fact correspond to new… read more