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Culpeper, Jonathan. 2011. “It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it!” Prosody and impoliteness.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

disambiguation | irony | message1 | politeness | prosody

Annotation

This paper discusses how prosodic characteristics are important for disambiguating messages and how they can even over-rule conventional messages linked to linguistic forms, as e.g. with ironic or sarcastic utterances.