Deborah Tannen by Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends

Author:Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-06-21T05:00:00+00:00

The pitch is very high on the beginnings of the sentences: “He’s” in “He’s a great writer” and “I” in “I think” in (14); “He’s” in (16) “He’s really good.” The pitch is very low on the emphasized words at the ends of the sentences: “great writer” and “best writers” in (14); “good” in (16). The contour that results is repeated in all three statements and signals to me great earnestness and sincerity. Illustrated by lines, the intonational contours look like this:

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