Escalating prosody
The vocal depiction of mobile action sequences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8252203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beatrice Szczepek Reed (0000-0002-3814-5198) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-129 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interactional Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2666-4224 • E-ISSN: 2666-4232 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/il.23009.szc |
| OpenAlex | W4395027906 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
This paper shows how horse-riding instructors vocally depict, and thereby co-design and mobilize the unfolding progression of horses’ and riders’ actions through gradually escalating prosody. Escalating prosody involves the stepwise raising of a speaker’s overall pitch across a series of turn components, often accompanied by increases in overall loudness and occasionally by changes in voice quality. Escalating prosody can accompany instructed activities from beginning to end or only during certain phases of the activity. The prosodic delivery mirrors the building and subsequent sustaining of physical effort expected of the horse-rider pair. It can occur with lexical instructions to perform series of actions or with repeated directives to sustain the current activity. It can also occur with repeated praise as a successful performance unfolds, and with repeated corrections, which temporally frame moments of trouble. Prosody is shown to be a resource for co-designing the actions of others, specifically, their mobility, physical effort, and sequential progression. The data are horse-riding lessons recorded in the UK and in Germany
Cognitive psychology · Frame (networking · Linguistics · Loudness · Praise · Prosody · Quality (philosophy · Speech recognition · Telecommunications · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistic research and analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |