Elisabeth Reber

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabeth Reber is involved.

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Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English

Elisabeth Reber

How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections (oh, ooh and ah) and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 215] 2012. ix, 281 pp.
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Prosody in Interaction

Edited by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting

Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] 2010. xxi, 406 pp.

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Drawn from a larger project on reported speech in parliamentary interaction (Reber, forthcoming), this paper studies visuo-material performances of so-called “literalized” (Rumsey, 1992) quoting, i.e., verbatim reproductions of original utterances. Taking an interactional-linguistic perspective,… read more
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Reber, Elisabeth 2014  Obama said it: Quoting as an evidential strategy in online discussion forumsCertainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue, Zuczkowski, Andrzej (ed.), pp. 76–92 | Article
Quoting constitutes a well documented evidential strategy across languages. This article examines an English collection of comments in online political discussion forums, which covers a wide spectrum of patterns with 1) overt stance-taking plus a direct quotation at one end and 2) implicit… read more
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