TY - JOUR A1 - Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - The role of intonation in the organization of repair and problem handling sequences in conversation N2 - Transcripts of repair and/or problem handling sequences from natural conversations are presented and analyzed with special reference to the role of intonation in the interactive organization of these sequences. It is shown that (a) in the initiation of so-called repair or local problem handling sequences, intonation is used as a type-distinctive device, and (b) in the handling of a global problem handling sequence, intonation is systematically used as a means to constitute and control participant cooperation. In general, intonation is analyzed as one contextualization cue cooccurring with specific syntactic, semantic and discourse organizational devices to signal the status of an utterance in conversational context. It is hypothesized that especially in the global problem handling sequence, different categories of intonation, i.e. different accent and contour types, are systematically used to signal and control participants' interactive problem handling in different, indexically relevant ways simultaneously. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 54 Y1 - 1988 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-41992 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - The construction of units in conversational talk Y1 - 2000 SN - 0047-4045 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - The "upward staircase" intonation contour in the Berlin vernacular : an example in the analysis of regionalized intonation as an interactional resource Y1 - 2004 SN - 1-58811-570-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - TCUs and TRPs : the construction of "units" in conversational talk Y1 - 1998 UR - http://inlist.uni-konstanz.de/issues/4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Syntax and prosody as methods for the construction and identification of turn-constructional units in conversation Y1 - 2005 SN - 90-272- 2627-X ER - TY - GEN A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Speech style in conversation as an interactive achievement N2 - Content: 1. Introduction 2. The notion of speech style: from a dependent variable to contextualization cue 3. Speech styles in conversation from a German Sozialamt 3.1 Extracts from conversation 3.2 Speech style constituting cues 3.3 Choice and alternation of speech styles in conversation 4. Summary and conclusions T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 67 Y1 - 1989 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-43189 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Regionalized intonation in its conversational context Y1 - 2004 SN - 3-484-30492-8 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Question intonation revisited : the intonation of conversational questions N2 - Content: 1. Introduction 2. Aim and approach of the present analysis 3. Non-restrictive 'open' conversational questions 4. More restrictive "narrower" questions 5. "Deviant cases" 6. Conclusions T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 66 Y1 - 1994 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-43179 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Question intonation revisited : the intonation of conversational questions Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Prosody in interaction : state of the art Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-90-272-8846-2 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Prosody in conversational questions N2 - My analysis of question-word questions in conversational question-answer sequences results in the decomposition of the conversational question into three systems of constitutive cues, which signal and contextualize the particular activity type in conversational interaction: (1) syntactic structure, (2) semantic relation to prior turn, and (3) prosody. These components are used and combined by interlocutors to distinguish between different activity types which (4) sequentially implicate different types of answers by the recipient in the next turn. Prosody is only one cooccurring cue, but in some cases it is the only distinctive one. It is shown that prosody, and in particular intonation, cannot be determined or even systematically related to syntactic sentence structure type or other sentence-grammatical principles, as most former and current theories of intonation postulate. Instead, prosody is an independent, autonomous signalling system, which is used as a contextualization device for the constitution of interactively relevant activity types in conversation. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 38 Y1 - 1992 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-36635 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Prosody as an activity-type distinctive signalling cue in conversation : the case of so-called 'astonished questions' in repair-initiation Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Prosody as an activity-type distinctive signalling cue in conversation : the case of so-called 'astonished questions' in repair-initiation Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Prosody and unit-construction in an ethnic style : the case of Turkish German and its use and function in conversation Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-90-272-3488-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation Y1 - 1996 SN - 1018-2101 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret A1 - Kern, Friederike T1 - On some syntactic and prosodic structures of Turkish German in talk-in-interaction N2 - On the basis of our data from telephone and face-to-face conversations between adolescent girls and young women of ethnic Turkish background who live in Berlin, we will describe some characteristic structures of the ethnic style of speaking that is called 'Turkendeutsch', 'Turkenslang', 'Kanak sprak' or the like. In our data, this style of speaking is not deployed throughout the speakers' conversations, butonly in particular turns and turn-constructional units (TCUs). The utterances most typical of this style exhibit specific combinations of syntactic and prosodic features that are unusual for colloquial and/or regionalized varieties of German. Among the structures recurrently found are specific kinds of pre- and post-positioned constituents before and after their 'host' sentences, the separation of turn-constructional units into very short prosodic units, the deployment of both lexical stress as well as utterance accentuation as a resource for stylistic variation, and the constitution of particular rhythmic patterns. In our paper, we will discuss some of these structures and show how they arc used its a resource to achieve particular tasks in conversational interaction. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03782166 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.05.018 SN - 0378-2166 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Lists as embedded structures and the prosody of list construction as an interactional resource Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Lists as embedded structures and the prosody of list construction as an interactional resource N2 - After giving an overview of the treatment of lists in the literature, I describe lists in German talk-in- interaction. I show that, apart from the preference for three-part lists described by Jefferson (1990), lists are embedded in a larger three-component structure that the list is the middle part of. For lists proper, I suggest to differentiate between closed and open lists that are produced with different kinds of practices. It is the prosody that is used to suggest the list as made up of a closed or an open number of list items, irrespective of its syntactic embedding. I then concentrate on open lists, in particular their intonation. Open lists may be produced with different kinds of, albeit similar, intonation contours. But it is not so much the particular intonation contour that is constitutive of lists, but a variety of similar contours plus the repetition of the chosen contour for at least some or even all of the list items. Furthermore, intonation is deployed to suggest the interpretation of a potential final list item as either a designed list completer or as another designed item of the list. The design of this final list item as a completer or as another list item is used as a practice to signal the non-completion or completion of the list proper. But even after completing the list proper, the larger three-component structure also has to be closed in order to embed and accommodate the list into the surrounding sequential interaction. For the analysis of the practices of list construction I am concentrating on the role of prosody, especially intonation, giving evidence to show that intonation is indeed one of the methodically used constitutive cues that makes the production and structuring of lists recognizable for recipients. Y1 - 2007 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.07.008 ER -