On the Division of `Prosodic' and `Non-Prosodic' Resources in Talk-in-Interaction

Gareth Walker, University of Sheffield
4:00 pm, Monday, November 10
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Avenue

Abstract
A significant amount of work published over the last twenty five years or so has shown how the phonetic design of talk-in-interaction is bound up with its sequential organisation. However, it is the consideration of prosodic--rather than general phonetic--features which seem to dominate current thinking. In this talk, I will set out some reasons for dealing with the phonetic design of talk in its totality. Time permitting, I will deal with prosodic and non-prosodic aspects of three phenomena evident in naturally occurring (English) conversation, each connected with the continuation of talk past a point of possible turn-completion. As well as describing phonetic aspects of these phenomena, I will outline some of their interactional usages and consequences.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Ford Interaction and Language Fund, Language Institute, Department of English and Department of Sociology. Funding to support the lecture is from the Ford Interaction andLanguage Fund and the L&S Anonymous Fund.

Contact: Professor Cecilia E. Ford

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