Case Studies on the Role of Prosody, Especially Intonation, in Contextualizing Story Telling in Conversation: Intonation as a Contextualization Device

Selting, Margret

doi:10.1075/pbns.22.16sel

In:The Contextualization of Language
Edited by Peter Auer and Aldo Di Luzio
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 22] 1992
► pp. 233–258

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Intonation as a Contextualization Device

Case Studies on the Role of Prosody, Especially Intonation, in Contextualizing Story Telling in Conversation

Margret Selting

Published online: 11 June 1992

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.22.16sel

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