The effectiveness of speech communication depends on the immersion in uniqueness and specificity national culture through knowledge reality. A literary text transmits background experiences, which process perception are not only interpreted by a reader, but also form value universals. Dialogue as intercultural is due to impact addressee, that is, pragmatic approach contributes to: 1) tolerance ...

Using a 20-hour contrastive corpus documenting political debates (public as well on TV) and work meetings, the paper examines functions distributions of specific French evidential: tu dis/vous dites [P] [you say [P]] (n = 108). Reported speech markers have been studied extensively across various languages communicative contexts. However, situation where speakers report their addressee's remains...

This paper describes experiments on gathering spoken-language data on the web that bears on issues of the phonetics-phonology and semanticspragmatics of intonation. The target data are tokens of fixed word strings like “than I did”, where intonation varies in a way which correlates with grammatical and pragmatic context. In a web harvest procedure, audio files were identified using a search eng...

The article is devoted to the separation of legislative discourse among other types legal discourse. specifics speaker and addressee in are characterized, its communicative purpose determined. typology speech genres Ukrainian communication presented. Speech such as law, constitution, decree, code bylaw analyzed. Linguo-pragmatic parameters were chosen criteria for – intention positions addresse...

The majority of studies addressing Spanish intonation, including work dating as far back as that of Navarro Tomás (1918, 1944) as well as studies conducted using the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model of intonational phonology (Ladd 1996, Pierrehumbert 1980, Pierrehumbert & Beckman 1988), have dealt with declaratives or interrogatives produced in a laboratory setting. Such laboratory speech has ...

In spatial dialog like in direction giving humans make frequent use of speechaccompanying gestures. Some gestures convey largely the same information as speech while others complement speech. This paper reports a study on how speakers distribute meaning across speech and gesture, and depending on what factors. Utterance meaning and the wider dialog context were tested by statistically analyzing...

This paper aims at analyzing phonological representation of connective words frequently used in Gouyu and Taiwan Min. Based on 180-mintue spontaneous speech in Gouyu and Taiwan Min, it is found that speakers tend to use connective words quite often to link phrases or sentences either consciously or unconsciously. Thus, following the labeling of the ToBI system, this study will focuses on phonol...

Although speech technologies keep improving their performance, it is necessary to understand the mechanisms used in speech to transmit, a part from lexical, other information such as emotion, attitude or speaker styles. In this work we have focused on the study of the correlation of basic prosodic features with emotional and pragmatic characteristics. For that purpose, three corpora have been u...

The participants in a conversation share a lot more than information about the propositional content of statements. Among other things, they share information about each other’s intentions or about whose turn it is to speak; they also spend a lot of their time synchronizing their views of the common ground [Clark, 1996]. Utterances update this ‘pragmatic’ aspects of the common ground as well as...