Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation Ward Paperback 9781316633618

Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation\n\nA comprehensive overview of how we use prosody to do things in conversation, such as persuade, suggest, flatter, take turns and reach agreement.\n\nNigel G. Ward (Author)\n\n9781316633618, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 14 March 2019\n\n262 pages\n22.8 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg\n\n'Nigel G. Ward's book presents a novel approach to a long elusive question: what are the acoustic correlates of prosody that align with communicative functions? By taking a data mining approach, acoustic features long thought to be correlates of prosodic categories and long speculated as contributing in complex ways, can be examined together. While research has been hampered by the lack of consensus defining discrete communicative functions, Ward takes a defiantly speculative approach in the interpretation of his very concrete statistical associations, paving the way for the discipline to use his methods experimentally.' Nanette Veil]