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Prosody in Interaction Studies in Discourse and Grammar (SiDaG) Studies in Discourse and Grammar is a monograph series providing a forum for research on grammar as it emerges from and is accounted for by discourse contexts. The assumption underlying the series is that corpora reflecting language as it is actually used are necessary, not only for the verification of grammatical analyses, but also for understanding how the regularities we think of as grammar emerge from communicative needs. Research in discourse and grammar draws upon both spoken and written corpora, and it is typically, though not necessarily, quantitative. Monographs in the series propose explanations for grammatical regularities in terms of recurrent discourse patterns, which reflect communicative needs, both informational and socio-cultural. Editor Sandra A. Thompson University of California at Santa Barbara Department of Linguistics Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA Volume 23 Prosody in Interaction Edited by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting Prosody in Interaction Edited by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten University of Freiburg Elisabeth Reber University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Margret Selting University of Potsdam John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Video clips (.mov) and audio files (.wav) of numerous examples in this volume can be found online, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sidag.23.media Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Prosody in interaction / edited by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber, Margret Selting. p. cm. (Studies in Discourse and Grammar, issn 0928-8929 ; v. 23) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) 2. Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology. I. Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, 1971- II. Reber, Elisabeth. III. Selting, Margret. P224.P758 2010 414’.6--dc22 2010039866 isbn 978 90 272 2633 4 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 8846 2 (Eb) © 2010 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Foreword ix Preface xi List of contributors xix Introduction Prosody in interaction: State of the art 3 Margret Selting Future prospects of research on prosody: The need for publicly available corpora: Comments on Margret Selting “Prosody in interaction: State of the art” 41 Arnulf Deppermann part i. Prosody and other levels of linguistic organization in interaction The phonetic constitution of a turn-holding practice: Rush-throughs in English talk-in-interaction 51 Gareth Walker Rush-throughs as social action: Comments on Gareth Walker “The phonetic constitution of a turn-holding practice: Rush-throughs in English talk-in-interaction” 73 Susanne Günthner Prosodic constructions in making complaints 81 Richard Ogden The relevance of context to the performing of a complaint: Comments on Richard Ogden “Prosodic constructions in making complaints” 105 Auli Hakulinen Prosodic variation in responses: The case of type-conforming responses to yes/no interrogatives 109 Geoffrey Raymond Prosody in Interaction Retrieving, redoing and resuscitating turns in conversation 131 John Local, Peter Auer and Paul Drew Doing confirmation with ja/nee hoor: Sequential and prosodic characteristics of a Dutch discourse particle 161 Harrie Mazeland and Leendert Plug part ii. Prosodic units as a structuring device in interaction Intonation phrases in natural conversation: A participants’ category? 191 Beatrice Szczepek Reed Making units: Comments on Beatrice Szczepek Reed “Intonation phrases in natural conversation: A participants’ category?” 213 Jan Anward Speaking dramatically: The prosody of live radio commentary of football matches 217 Friederike Kern Commentating fictive and real sports: Comments on Friederike Kern “Speaking dramatically: The prosody of radio live commentary of football matches” 239 Johannes Wagner Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction 243 Bill Wells Repetition and contrast across action sequences: Comments on Bill Wells “Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction” 263 Traci Walker part iii. Prosody and other semiotic resources in interaction Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction: A multidimensional single-case analysis 269 Elisabeth Gülich and Katrin Lindemann Table of contents Double function of prosody: Processes of meaning-making in narrative reconstructions of epileptic seizures: Comments on Elisabeth Gülich and Katrin Lindemann “Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction. A multidimensional single-case analysis” 295 Elisabeth Reber Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun: Displaying involvement without topical engagement 303 Hiroko Tanaka Response tokens – A multimodal approach: Comments on Hiroko Tanaka “Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun” 333 Dagmar Barth-Weingarten Multiple practices for constructing laughables 339 Cecilia E. Ford and Barbara A. Fox Multimodal laughing: Comments on Cecilia Ford and Barbara Fox “Multiple practices for constructing laughables” 369 Karin Birkner Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia 373 Charles Goodwin Further perspectives on cooperative semiosis: Comments on Charles Goodwin “Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia” 395 Helga Kotthoff Author index 401 Subject index 403 Video clips (.mov) and audio files (.wav) of numerous examples in this volume can be found online, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sidag.23.media This symbol marks the availability of a video clip of an example. This symbol marks the availability of an audio file of an example. Foreword The appearance in 1996 of Prosody in Conversation, edited by Elizabeth Couper- Kuhlen and Margret Selting (Couper-Kuhlen and Selting 1996), was a landmark pub- lication, drawing together, for the first time, a group of articles that explored the study of prosody in its ‘home environment’, everyday conversation. The editors noted in their introduction to that volume the ways in which it repre- sented a new development in the study of language and social organization, calling for new methodologies, new analytic approaches, and new interdisciplinary interactions. In retrospect, in fact, that volume can rightly be said to have heralded an entire new subfield, with practitioners from Conversation Analysis and Linguistics focusing their investigations on the role of prosody in social interaction. Since that time a key figure has been providing consistently insightful leadership in developing these new methodologies, approaches, and interdisciplinary interac- tions, namely Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen herself. The collection of papers in this vol- ume, Prosody in Interaction, both celebrate her scholarship and provide eloquent testi- mony to the high standards which she has set for the entire field. Inspired by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen’s scholarship and example, the editors of this volume gathered the scholars represented here in Potsdam in September 2008 to present their research findings in her honor, and to express their admiration and es- teem for her research and their appreciation for her as a teacher, mentor, and col- league. Those research findings, thoughtfully crafted into this volume, consider issues of prosody in interaction from a refreshing range of perspectives, including its pho- netic properties and its role in sequence organization, radio commentary talk, child/ caregiver talk, aphasia, and medical interviews. These papers both show how far we’ve come and suggest countless fascinating re- search projects designed to further discover the way prosody works in human social encounters. Sandra A. Thompson Santa Barbara, California spring 2010 References Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Selting, Margret (eds.) 1996. Prosody in conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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