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Publication details [#54859]

Paboudjian, Chantal. 2011. Sociocultural influences and prosodic variations. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (7) : 1912–1928.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This article focuses on the importance of acknowledging sociocultural and sociohistorical elements in the interpretation of prosodic meaning and especially of intonational contour meaning. Various intonational features of the African-American Vernacular English speech community are observed to communicate sense of community, playfulness, and creativity, derived from Africa and the socio-economic changes the group has faced, and used for the expression of validation of black identity.