ON THE PROSE RHYTHM OF EVERYDAY SPEECH (A prozai beszed ritmusarol)

• Authors: Wacha Imre
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Most studies on prose rhythm deal with issues concerning the rhythmicity of artistic/rhetorical prose as part of the rhythmics of poetry and/or literary prose. However, the domain of inquiry into linguistic rhythm also includes the rhythm of everyday speech, or 'speech rhythm' for short. Speech rhythm includes, albeit not in the same artistic order and not with the same degree of expressivity, all components whose regular recurrence makes a poem a poem: articulatory rhythm, based on the alternating durations of syllables including short vs. long vowels; stress-based rhythm, produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables, words, or roughly isochronous stretches of speech containing more or less material; structural rhythm, based on the alternation of sentences with parallel structure; and overall text rhythm that comes from the proportions of various constituents within the structure of the text.

Keywords

EN

ACOUSTIC RHYTHM; ARTICULATION RHYTHM; PROSE RHYTHM; RHYTHM OF COMPLEX SENTENCES; RHYTHM OF PARENTHETICALS; SENTENCE RHYTHM

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 133
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 187-209
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Wacha Imre

• Imre Wacha, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA079111