Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 659242 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth |
| APELLIDO | Couper-Kuhlen |
| FIRMA | COUPER-KUHLEN E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
OH + Okay in informing sequences
This study explores fuzzy boundaries, or weak cesuras, in the particle combination OH + OKAY as used in informing sequences in ordinary English talk-in-interaction. The focus is on the third position in such sequences, where OH + OKAY responds to information that has been solicited by the speaker in a prior turn. Based on a collection of approximately 45 instances of OH + OKAY in recent American English telephone and face-to-face interactions, th…
The prosody of other-repetition in British and North American English
This study explores the link between prosody and other-repetition in a moderately large collection from everyday English talk-in-interaction (n = 200). British English and North American English cases were analysed separately in order to track possible varietal differences. Of initial interest was the question whether focal pitch accents might disambiguate among other-repetition actions, both those related to repair and those that go beyond repai…
Interactional Linguistics
The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way that linguistic units of varying size…
Grammar in Everyday Talk
Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), respon…
Nominated actions and their targeted agents in Finnish conversational directives
Requesting in social interaction
Insisting on ‘my side
Turn Continuation and Clause Combinations
This article explores the viability of the analytic distinction between “turn-constructional unit (TCU) continuation” (i.e., continuing a turn beyond a point of possible completion with grammatically dependent material) and “new TCU” (i.e., continuing a turn with grammatically independent material) when hypotactic clause combinations are involved. The focus is on causal clause combinations, which may be either lexico-syntactically marked (e.g., a…
Interjektionen zwischen Lexikon und Vokalität
Anstelle der herkömmlichen Wortklasse Interjektion plädiert dieser Beitrag für eine erweiterte Auffassung von Lautobjekten (hier auch ‚Vokalisierungen‘ genannt), wie sie von tatsächlichen Sprechern in konkreten Interaktionszusammenhängen produziert werden. Fokussiert wird der Gebrauch von Lautobjekten als affektgeladene Reaktion auf eine Mitteilung im Gespräch. Anhand eines Korpus von natürlich vorkommenden englischen Alltagsgesprächen werden dre…
On assessing situations and events in conversation
Recent research provides strong evidence that the syntacticization of recurrent multi-actional and interactional patterns for accomplishing social actions is quite a general phenomenon. Drawing on a body of audio and video recordings, we consider three pervasive conversational patterns whereby English speakers carry out the assessing of an event or situation, and the interactional contingencies which give rise to these patterns. We propose that o…
You know, it’s funny
The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction
This article draws on work at the interface of grammar and interaction to argue that the clause is a locus of interaction, in the sense that it is one of the most frequent grammatical formats which speakers orient to in projecting what actions are being done by others' utterances and in acting on these projections. Yet the way in which the clause affords grammatical projectability varies significantly from language to language. In fact, it depend…
Sound Patterns in Interaction
This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in talk-in-interaction based on data drawn from diverse languages: Japanese, English, Finnish, and German, as well as from diverse speakers: children, fluent adult…
Studies in Interactional Linguistics
Interactional prosody
The present study demonstrates how prosody - specifically, onset level - is deployed in situated interaction to cue frames of interpretation for talk. It shows not only that final pitch level in intonational contours is a relevant parameter, but also that, under certain conditions, initial pitch level may provide a situationally specific contextualization cue. In calls to radio phone-in programs, for instance, there is a so-called anchor position…
Concessive patterns in conversation
Concessive patterns in conversation
Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast
In this collection of original and innovative papers, new light is thrown on the nature and the expression of the four probably most-researched coherence relations
Language in Time
The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language use. Their approach is rigorously empirical, with analyses of English, German, and Italian rhythm, all grounded in sequences of …
Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction
Introduction If prosody is understood to comprise the ‘musical’ attributes of speech – auditory effects such as melody, dynamics, rhythm, tempo and pause – then it is surely no exaggeration to state that a large part of this field has been left untilled by modern structural linguistics. Only a few scholars at the most have considered prosody, intonation in particular, worthy of their attention. Moreover, when they have done so, it has been primar…
Prosody in Conversation
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English, Ge…
The prosody of repetition
The research question which this chapter addresses is motivated by the growing awareness that speakers who are engaged in verbal interaction with one another employ adaptive strategies which entail 'matching' their speech behaviour in one way or another to that of their interlocutor. On the verbal level this matching may involve repetition of words, expressions or whole utterances, e.g. to contextualize affiliation or support (Tannen 1987, 1989).…
English Speech Rhythm
English Speech Rhythm
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organiza…
Contextualizing Discourse
Prosody in Conversation
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English, Ge…
Interactional prosody
The present study demonstrates how prosody - specifically, onset level - is deployed in situated interaction to cue frames of interpretation for talk. It shows not only that final pitch level in intonational contours is a relevant parameter, but also that, under certain conditions, initial pitch level may provide a situationally specific contextualization cue. In calls to radio phone-in programs, for instance, there is a so-called anchor position…
The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction
This article draws on work at the interface of grammar and interaction to argue that the clause is a locus of interaction, in the sense that it is one of the most frequent grammatical formats which speakers orient to in projecting what actions are being done by others' utterances and in acting on these projections. Yet the way in which the clause affords grammatical projectability varies significantly from language to language. In fact, it depend…
On assessing situations and events in conversation
Recent research provides strong evidence that the syntacticization of recurrent multi-actional and interactional patterns for accomplishing social actions is quite a general phenomenon. Drawing on a body of audio and video recordings, we consider three pervasive conversational patterns whereby English speakers carry out the assessing of an event or situation, and the interactional contingencies which give rise to these patterns. We propose that o…
Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast
In this collection of original and innovative papers, new light is thrown on the nature and the expression of the four probably most-researched coherence relations
Nominated actions and their targeted agents in Finnish conversational directives
Turn Continuation and Clause Combinations
This article explores the viability of the analytic distinction between “turn-constructional unit (TCU) continuation” (i.e., continuing a turn beyond a point of possible completion with grammatically dependent material) and “new TCU” (i.e., continuing a turn with grammatically independent material) when hypotactic clause combinations are involved. The focus is on causal clause combinations, which may be either lexico-syntactically marked (e.g., a…
Insisting on ‘my side
The prosody of other-repetition in British and North American English
This study explores the link between prosody and other-repetition in a moderately large collection from everyday English talk-in-interaction (n = 200). British English and North American English cases were analysed separately in order to track possible varietal differences. Of initial interest was the question whether focal pitch accents might disambiguate among other-repetition actions, both those related to repair and those that go beyond repai…
An Introduction to English Prosody
Contextualizing Discourse
English Speech Rhythm
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organiza…
Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction
Introduction If prosody is understood to comprise the ‘musical’ attributes of speech – auditory effects such as melody, dynamics, rhythm, tempo and pause – then it is surely no exaggeration to state that a large part of this field has been left untilled by modern structural linguistics. Only a few scholars at the most have considered prosody, intonation in particular, worthy of their attention. Moreover, when they have done so, it has been primar…
Prosody in Conversation
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English, Ge…
The prosody of repetition
The research question which this chapter addresses is motivated by the growing awareness that speakers who are engaged in verbal interaction with one another employ adaptive strategies which entail 'matching' their speech behaviour in one way or another to that of their interlocutor. On the verbal level this matching may involve repetition of words, expressions or whole utterances, e.g. to contextualize affiliation or support (Tannen 1987, 1989).…
English Speech Rhythm
Language in Time
The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language use. Their approach is rigorously empirical, with analyses of English, German, and Italian rhythm, all grounded in sequences of …
Concessive patterns in conversation
Concessive patterns in conversation
Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast
In this collection of original and innovative papers, new light is thrown on the nature and the expression of the four probably most-researched coherence relations
Studies in Interactional Linguistics
Interactional prosody
The present study demonstrates how prosody - specifically, onset level - is deployed in situated interaction to cue frames of interpretation for talk. It shows not only that final pitch level in intonational contours is a relevant parameter, but also that, under certain conditions, initial pitch level may provide a situationally specific contextualization cue. In calls to radio phone-in programs, for instance, there is a so-called anchor position…
Sound Patterns in Interaction
This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in talk-in-interaction based on data drawn from diverse languages: Japanese, English, Finnish, and German, as well as from diverse speakers: children, fluent adult…
The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction
This article draws on work at the interface of grammar and interaction to argue that the clause is a locus of interaction, in the sense that it is one of the most frequent grammatical formats which speakers orient to in projecting what actions are being done by others' utterances and in acting on these projections. Yet the way in which the clause affords grammatical projectability varies significantly from language to language. In fact, it depend…
You know, it’s funny
On assessing situations and events in conversation
Recent research provides strong evidence that the syntacticization of recurrent multi-actional and interactional patterns for accomplishing social actions is quite a general phenomenon. Drawing on a body of audio and video recordings, we consider three pervasive conversational patterns whereby English speakers carry out the assessing of an event or situation, and the interactional contingencies which give rise to these patterns. We propose that o…
Interjektionen zwischen Lexikon und Vokalität
Anstelle der herkömmlichen Wortklasse Interjektion plädiert dieser Beitrag für eine erweiterte Auffassung von Lautobjekten (hier auch ‚Vokalisierungen‘ genannt), wie sie von tatsächlichen Sprechern in konkreten Interaktionszusammenhängen produziert werden. Fokussiert wird der Gebrauch von Lautobjekten als affektgeladene Reaktion auf eine Mitteilung im Gespräch. Anhand eines Korpus von natürlich vorkommenden englischen Alltagsgesprächen werden dre…
Turn Continuation and Clause Combinations
This article explores the viability of the analytic distinction between “turn-constructional unit (TCU) continuation” (i.e., continuing a turn beyond a point of possible completion with grammatically dependent material) and “new TCU” (i.e., continuing a turn with grammatically independent material) when hypotactic clause combinations are involved. The focus is on causal clause combinations, which may be either lexico-syntactically marked (e.g., a…
Requesting in social interaction
Insisting on ‘my side
Grammar in Everyday Talk
Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), respon…
Nominated actions and their targeted agents in Finnish conversational directives
Interactional Linguistics
The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way that linguistic units of varying size…
The prosody of other-repetition in British and North American English
This study explores the link between prosody and other-repetition in a moderately large collection from everyday English talk-in-interaction (n = 200). British English and North American English cases were analysed separately in order to track possible varietal differences. Of initial interest was the question whether focal pitch accents might disambiguate among other-repetition actions, both those related to repair and those that go beyond repai…
Linguistics (19 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Philosophy (17 obras) · Computer Science (16 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 obras) · Communication (14 obras) · Conversation (11 obras) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (9 obras) · Conversation analysis (7 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 obras)