The Functions of Prosody in Action Formation in Australian Greek Talk-in-Interaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900502 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angeliki Alvanoudi (0000-0003-1041-0065, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages8040256 |
| OpenAlex | W4387971148 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 46 |
This study takes us to the Greek diasporic community in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia. The data analyzed derive from audio-recorded conversations with first-generation Greek immigrants collected during fieldwork in 2013. Drawing on interactional linguistics and contact linguistics, this paper analyzes the prosody of bilingual discourse markers and bilingual repetition in Australian Greek talk-in-interaction. It is shown that the prosodic features of code switches, namely pitch, intensity and duration, shape action formation and ascription. In the case of bilingual discourse markers, pitch serves as a contextualization cue that conveys the speaker's stance and frames the different functions of the code-switched items. In bilingual repetition, speakers mobilize duration and intensity to prosodically differentiate the first iteration delivered in English from the second iteration delivered in Greek and, thus, frame the interpretation of the code switch as participant-related. This study sheds light on the pragmatic aspects of the phonetics of the Greek variety spoken in Cairns, and demonstrates that prosody shapes the functions of language contact-induced speech behavior in specific interactional contexts
Action (physics · Art · Code (set theory · Code-switching · Contextualization · Duration (music · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Modern Greek · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Physics · Prosody · Repetition (rhetorical device · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Language Contact
Interactional Linguistics
The Handbook of Conversation Analysis
Bilingual Conversation
Affectivity in Interaction
Approaches to Discourse Particles
Dynamics of Language Contact
Discourse Markers
One Speaker, Two Languages
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Conversation Analysis
Prosody in Conversation
Grammars in Contact
Sound Patterns in Interaction
The evolution of a Bilingual Discourse Marking System
Greek wh-questions and the phonology of intonation
The Greeks in Australia
Greek
Language contact, borrowing and code switching
Deontic Authority in Interaction
Epistemics in Action
Offering a candidate answer
Narrative performance in a dying language
Greek PhoneticsThe State of the Art
Acoustic features of Greek rhythmic structure
Utterance modifiers and universals of grammatical borrowing
Grammar and Social Organization
Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish Y Termino EN EspaÑOL
Prosodic linking in apology sequences in Finnish elementary school mediations
Metalanguaging and discourse markers in bilingual conversation
The construction of units in conversational talk
How phonetic features project more talk
Standard Modern Greek
Discourse Strategies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |