Publications

Publication details [#14815]

Freese, Jeremy and Douglas W. Maynard. 1998. Prosodic features of bad news and good news in conversation. Language in Society 27 (2) : 195–219.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | prosody | sequential organization

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

It is observed that both good and bad news deliveries consistently employ prosodic features expressing joy and sorrow, respectively. Moreover, these features pattern systematically in news delivery turn sequences, illustrating the research potential of prosody combined with conversation analysis.