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Publication details [#14815]

Freese, Jeremy and Douglas W. Maynard. 1998. Prosodic features of bad news and good news in conversation. Language in Society 27 (2) : 195–219.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045

Annotation

It is observed that both good and bad news deliveries consistently employ prosodic features expressing joy and sorrow, respectively. Moreover, these features pattern systematically in news delivery turn sequences, illustrating the research potential of prosody combined with conversation analysis.