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Publication details [#25649]

Scheuer, Jann. 1995. Relevance and prosody in spoken Danish. Journal of Pragmatics 23 (4) : 421–447.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

prosody | relevance theory | sociology | spoken language

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Examining the explanatory power of relevance-theory regarding stress on epistemic verbs in spoken Danish, it is argued that sociopragmatic and sociological insights must be incorporated in order to formulate an accurate explanation of the prosodic phenomena.