Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction: - Volume 15

A study in the field of speech science, offering a perspective outside of those traditionally encountered in Anglophone accounts of the subject. It outlines prosody in English, German and Chinese as a principal component of linguistic form for communicative functions in speech interaction. The book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in linguistics, especially phonetics and speech science.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Speech communication in human interaction; 2. Prosody in a functional framework: the Kiel Intonation Model (KIM); 3. The representation function; 4. The appeal function; 5. The expression function; 6. Linguistic form of communicative functions in language comparison.

About the author

Klaus J. Kohler is Emeritus Professor at the Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany, and Honorary Professor at Nanjing Normal University, China. He was editor of Phonetica: International Journal of Phonetic Science, for thirty-five years.

Summary

Prosody in English, German and Chinese is outlined as a principal component of linguistic form for communicative functions in speech interaction.

Product details

• Authors: Klaus J. Kohler, KOHLER KLAUS J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2017
• EAN: 9781107170728
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17072-8
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Phonetics, phonology