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.

Sommario

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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Klaus J. Kohler, KOHLER KLAUS J.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2017
• EAN: 9781107170728
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17072-8
• Pagine: 318
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Phonetics, phonology