Publications

Publication details [#15014]

Couper-Kühlen, Elisabeth. 2001. Interactional prosody: High onsets in reason-for-the-call turns. Language in Society 30 (1) : 29–53.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | intonation | prosody | radio talk | turn

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

A study of the prosodic features of turns signalling reason-for-the-call announcements in radio phone-in programs. More specifically, it is shown how pitch levels function as contextualization cues in these programs.