The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences A Corpus and Discourse Approach

Lin, Phoebe & Michaela Mahlberg & Wolfgang Teubert

ISBN 10: 1441181156 / ISBN 13: 9781441181152

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences A Corpus and Discourse Approach
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441181156
• ISBN 13: 9781441181152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

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Synopsis

To apply the same approaches to analysing spoken and written formulaic language is problematic; to do so masks the fact that the contextual meaning of spoken formulaic language is encoded, to a large extent, in its prosody. In The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences, Phoebe Lin offers a new perspective on formulaic language, arguing that while past research often treats formulaic language as a lexical phenomenon, the phonological aspect of it is a more fundamental facet.

This book draws its conclusions from three original, empirical studies of spoken formulaic language, assessing intonation unit boundaries as well as features such as tempo and stress placement. Across all studies, Lin considers questions of methodology and conceptual framework.

The corpus-based descriptions of prosody outlined in this book not only deepen our understanding of the nature of formulaic language but have important implications for English Language Teaching and automatic speech synthesis.

About the Authors

Phoebe M. S. Lin is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

Michaela Mahlberg is Humboldt-Professor and Professor of Digital Humanities at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Gavin Brookes is Senior Research Associate within the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK.