Prosody-Pragmatics Interface in the Sitcom Discourse

The paper presents the outcomes of the analysis of the tonic stress placement and its interpretation in terms of a speaker’s communicative intention in the original version of the episode of the sitcom ‘Friends’. Phonetic and pragmatic analyses of an utterance represent a combination of langue and p...

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Main Authors: Magdaléna Bilá, Alena Kačmárová
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2014-12-01
Series:Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN
Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9392