Publications

Publication details [#54799]

Prieto, Pilar and Marianna Nadeu. 2011. Pitch range, gestural information, and perceived politeness in Catalan. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (3) : 841–854.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gesture | information chunking | politeness | prosody | question

Language as a subject

Catalan

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that when evaluating the extent of perceived politeness in information-seeking yes–no questions in Catalan, various prosodic aspects together with contextual and gestural information have to be taken into account.