The information structure of emotively marked speech
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The focus of the present study is emotively marked intonation in spoken discourse. The analysis is based on the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective developed by Jan Firbas, in which intonation is considered as a factor that in unmarked speech confirms the outcome of the interplay of the non-prosodic factors: linear modification, semantics, and context. Deviations from the correspondence between the prosodic prominence of a language unit and its degree of communicative dynamism determined by the interplay of nonprosodic factors often occur in English marked utterances signalling the speaker’s emotions and attitudes to the extra-linguistic reality. The deviations are manifested by different types of prosodic intensification and attenuation; in some cases, intonation comes into complete conflict with the interplay of non-prosodic factors. The study follows up on Firbas’ research of emotiveness in English. It presents different patterns of intensification and attenuation of communicative units identified in samples of spoken texts. The study provides a comparison of the analyzed texts in regard to emotiveness and a comparison of the means of expressing emotiveness in English and Czech. |
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