Publications

Publication details [#64356]

Dehé, Nicole, Lucy Zhao and Victoria A. Murphy. 2018. From pitch to purpose: The prosodic–pragmatic mapping of [I + verb] belief constructions in English and Mandarin. Journal of Pragmatics 123 : 57–77.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | implicature | opinion | pragmatic function | prosody

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

English and Mandarin show analogous [I + verb] confidence rating trends. Prosodic focus generated confidence rating discrepancies in [I + verb] variations. [I + verb] confidence rating trends concur with alternative semantics theory. Findings bolster the concept of a cross-linguistic pragmatic–prosodic mapping of [I + verb].