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The prosody of formulaic sequences : a corpus and discourse approach /

"To apply the same approaches to analysing spoken and written formulaic language is problematic; to do so masks the fact that the contextual meaning of spoken formulaic language is encoded, to a large extent, in its prosody. In The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences, Phoebe Lin offers a new perspec...

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Main Author: Lin, Phoebe M. S. (Phoebe Min sum Lin) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Series:Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.
Subjects:
Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Linguistic models.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
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  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Perspectives on the Prosody of Formulaic Language
  • 3. Prosodic Cues and "Formulaicity"
  • 4. The Prosody of Formulaic Expressions in the Lancaster\IBM Spoken English Corpus
  • 5. The Prosody of Formulaic Expressions in a Lecture Extract
  • 6. A Corpus-Based approach to the prosody of formulaic language
  • bibliography
  • Index.

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