'Attention, I'm violating a maxim!' A unifying account of the final rise
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| Publication date | 2013 |
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| Book title | SEMDIAL 2013 : DialDam |
| Book subtitle | Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue : Amsterdam, 16-18 December 2013 |
| Series | Proceedings SemDial |
| Event | 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue |
| Pages (from-to) | 150-159 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam |
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| Abstract |
Declarative sentences that end with a rising pitch in English (among other languages) have many uses. I single out several prominent uses that the literature so far has treated mostly independently. I present a compositional, unifying analysis, where the final rising pitch marks the violation of a conversational maxim, and its steepness indicates the speaker’s emotional activation. Existing theories are reproduced from these basic assumptions. I believe it contributes to a solid theoretical foundation for future work on the semantics and pragmatics of intonation. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
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http://staff.science.uva.nl/~westera/downloads/Westera%202013%20-%20attention%20final%20rise%20SemDial%20final.pdf
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http://events.illc.uva.nl/semdial/proceedings/semdial2013_dialdam_proceedings.pdf
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