Klama, for mixed choir, live electronics & prerecorded sounds, has its origins in the ritual lament of Southern Peloponnese (Greece); a “polyphony” composed of improvised monodies (moirolóya), epodes, crying, screams and monologues, accompanied by ritual gestures. By its acoustic violence the lament can be considered an alteration of vocality which affects simultaneously tonality, timbre and la...

Austen's extraordinary realism in depicting the dynamic internal processes which follow on the heroine's loss in Persuasion becomes clear in the light of a psychoanalytic understanding of mourning. Persuasion dramatizes the effects of a mother's death in adolescence as these come into play at the time of the heroine's separation from her fiancée and her later mourning. The thesis of this paper ...

Abstract Over the last 50+ years, there has been a huge rise in interest consumer language research. This manuscript spotlights emergence and evolution of this area, identifying key themes trends, highlighting topics for future Work evolved from exploration broad concepts (e.g., rhetorics) to specific linguistic features phonemes) monologues advertiser consumer) two-way dialogues service repres...

Syntactic and discourse boundaries are signalled by prosodic cues as well as linguistic cues in speech. We investigated whether there is a correspondence between prosodic or linguistic cues and the boundary strengths. We measured the rates of filled pauses (FPs) and conjunctions, and the durations of silent and filled pauses and conjunctions at four types of boundaries in casual presentations i...

This study is a linguistic study on idiosyncrasy using speaker classification technique as an analytical tool. The goals of this study are to find out 1) to what extent Japanese filler words (e.g. um, you know in English) carry individual idiosyncratic information; 2) if there are any differences in the degree/nature of idiosyncrasy between the sexes; and 3) what contributes to the identified g...

Abstract The purpose of the present study is to offer insights into how Spanish undergraduates, who were mid-way through an English-medium programme at a university in Catalonia, articulate their past decision academic subject English. Economics students (34 total) completed oral elicitation task and monologues yielded analysed using thematic analysis. Three dominant themes emerged: (1) right f...

L’état z’héros est une œuvre dans laquelle Maurice Bandaman intègre le conte la structure du roman. Sa discursivité repose sur un certain nombre d’intertextes oraux dont les chants rituels, stances, opus et des références intégrées sous forme d’un collage littéraire. Au niveau de narration, voix narrateurs interagit avec celles personnages dialogues monologues autonomes ou narrateurs. Ces relat...

ةيتوصلا تاربنلاو عاقيلإا ملع مدختسي (Prosody) قوطنملا ةجلاعمب ةقلعتملا تاقيبطتلا نم ديدعلا يف عساو قاطن ىلع ، ملاكلا ىلع فرعتلا اهنم ملكتملا ىلع فرعتلاو جهلو هت إ ايلآ هعيطقتو ملاكلل يعوضوملا فينصتلا يف اضيأ ملعلا اذه مدختسي امآ ، رعاشملا ديدحتو ليوحت تاقيبطت يفو لمج ىل ،ةعومسم ةءارق ىلإ بوتكملا صنلا ةيبرعلا ريغ ىرخأ تاغل تيقل دقو اًريثآ ددصلا اذه يف مامتهلاا نم . فوسو دحأ ىلإ ةساردلا هذه يف ض...