Publications

Publication details [#45707]

Selting, Margret. 2007. Lists as embedded structures and the prosody of list construction as an interactional resource. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (3) : 483–526.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

embedded performative | interaction properties | intonation | prosody | talk-in-interaction

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study of list construction practices, focusing on the role of prosody, in particular intonation, analyzing lists in literature and in German talk-in-interaction, demonstrates that lists are open or closed middle part embedded structures in larger three-component structures.