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Relevance and prosody

Deirdre Wilson, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2006 - 
- Vol. 38, Iss: 10, pp 1559-1579
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In this paper, the authors explore how the wealth of insights provided by the literature on the interpretation of prosody might be integrated into the relevance-theoretic framework (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995; Blakemore, 2002; Carston, 2002).
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This article is published in Journal of Pragmatics.The article was published on 2006-10-01. It has received 293 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prosody & Pragmatics.

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Factors in the recognition of vocally expressed emotions: A comparison of four languages

TL;DR: The data emphasize that while emotional communication is governed by display rules and other social variables, vocal expressions of ‘basic’ emotion in speech exhibit modal tendencies in their acoustic and perceptual attributes which are largely unaffected by language or linguistic similarity.
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The sound of sarcasm

TL;DR: It was concluded that sarcasm in speech can be characterized by a specific pattern of prosodic cues in addition to textual cues, and that these acoustic characteristics can be influenced by language used by the speaker.
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Recognizing emotions in a foreign language

TL;DR: The authors compared how monolingual speakers of Argentine Spanish recognize basic emotions from pseudo-utterances (nonsense speech) produced in their native language and in three foreign languages (English, German, Arabic).
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

TL;DR: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Introduction to the First Edition and Discussion Index, by Phillip Prodger and Paul Ekman.
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An argument for basic emotions

TL;DR: This work has shown that not only the intensity of an emotion but also its direction may vary greatly both in the amygdala and in the brain during the course of emotion regulation.
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Relevance: Communication and Cognition

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a list of symbols for verb-verb communication in the context of Verbal Communication, including the following: preface to second edition, preface and postface to first edition.
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Forms of Talk

Susan U. Philips, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1983 - 
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Forms of talk

TL;DR: This paper brought together five of Goffman's essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk" for discussion and analysis.