Prosody in Elicitations: A Study of Intonation in BBC Talk Radio Shows

• Authors: Ágnes Herczeg-Deli
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper is concerned with the prosodic features of non-literal language use in indirect elicitations in radio talk. It will be demonstrated how intonation becomes mirror of some contextual factors, and how the prosodic features of elicitations can corroborate the speaker’s meaning manifested through certain lexico-grammatical elements in the discourse.

Keywords

EN

context; discourse; indirectness; lexico-grammar; prosody

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 38-48

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Ágnes Herczeg-Deli

• Eszterházy Károly College

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0005-z