Abstract
Complaints might be thought a priori to be a good place to find paralinguistic features in a natural setting. Using conversation analytic methodology, I argue that the phonetic design of complaints is mostly determined by other sequential features of the turn in which the complaint is delivered. In particular, a turn delivering a complaint can either be marked as designed to receive an affiliative reponse (and thus a continuation of the activity of complaining), or marked as closing down the complaint sequence.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of ICPhS 2007 |
| Place of Publication | Saarbrücken |
| Pages | 1321-1324 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- paralinguistics
- complaints
- conversation
- prosody
- English