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 - GEN A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Levels of style-shifting : exemplified in the interaction strategies of a moderator in a listener participation programme N2 - This paper investigates speech styles and style-shifting in the speech of the moderator of a German radio participation programme. Style-shifting is shown to affect several distinct linguistic levels: phonetic, morphophonemic, syntactic, and lexical. The functions of style-shifting are related both to the discourse context and the broader institutional context. Relying on listeners' co-occurrence expectations with respect to language use in contexts and exploiting listeners' evaluations of processes of speech convergence and divergence, the moderator uses stereotypic markers at different style levels in locally strategic functions in discourse. On the one hand, thematic development is controlled by reinforcing obligations on the addressee. On the other hand, global social reciprocity patterns are constituted and secured. Patterns of reciprocity vary with different types of addressees. The conversational analysis of language variation shows that variation is not only a quantitative correlate of regional, social and contextual parameters as predominantly conceived of in sociolinguistics. Language variation is furthermore used as a means to signal social and interactive meaning in conversations. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 40 Y1 - 1985 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-41273 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 - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Regionalized intonation in its conversational context Y1 - 2004 SN - 3-484-30492-8 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 - Dresden Fallbogen contours as an example of regionalized German intonation N2 - Based on data from a Mid-German dialect area of Dresden, this article presents research on the structure and functions of regionalized intonation. The Dresden data comes from informal conversation-like settings and illustrates a contour that is typical of the Dresden city vernacular: a contour previously named and described as the Dresden Fallbogen. An analysis of the phonetic forms and phonological structures of the contour is provided, and its use and function in conversational interactions is described. Additional methods of investigating the perception and identification of these contours by subjects in an experimental setting are also given. The article concludes with remarks about the possible relevance of this contour as a signal of identity Y1 - 2004 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 - Peters, Jörg A1 - Gilles, Peter A1 - Auer, Peter A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Identifying regional varieties by pitch information : a comparison of two approaches Y1 - 2003 SN - 1-87634-649-3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Falling curves (Fallbogen) in the vernacular of Dresden (Intonation contours in German) N2 - This article describes a salient intonation contour of the Dresden urban vernacular which Gericke (1963) called 'Fallbogen' (falling curve). The contour is described both structurally and functionally. The structural analysis describes the phonetic trajectory of the contour and the phonological structure and alignment of the contour with the syllables of the utterance. In the functional analysis, the use of the contour is investigated in its conversational context. The 'Fallbogen' is reconstructed as a contour which is deployed in order to signal and constitute emphasis and heightened emotive involvement in talk-in-interaction; this analysis is validated with recourse to recipients' responses in the utterances following the use of the 'Fallbogen' contour Y1 - 2003 SN - 0340-9341 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - A salient regionalized intonation contour in the Dresden vernacular (regionalized intonation in German) N2 - After reviewing the research on Saxon regionalized intonation and giving an overview of our research project on regionalized intonation in German, a particular salient regionalized intonation contour from the Dresden vernacular is described in detail. In addition to a more widespread contour that is also used in the Berlin vernacular, albeit in different contexts, the so-called 'upward staircase contour' which is formed by a lower plateau, a rise and a higher plateau, the Dresden vernacular also uses very salient regionalized variants of such staircase contours: These variants entail upward staircases with, metaphorically speaking, two steps; i.e. after the lower plateau and the rise up to a higher plateau, the pitch rises up again in order to form a third plateau. Depending upon the alignment of the second rise and the third plateau, with only the final unaccented syllable of the intonation phrase or with the nuclear accented syllable and the following tail, the contour needs to be distinguished, yielding either an 'upward staircase with an additional final rise plateau' or a 'double upward staircase'. These two contours are shown to be used in different conversational contexts and in different functions in the Dresden vernacular. - Data for this study come from natural speech by speakers of the Dresden vernacular. The phonetic and phonological analysis of the contour is based on auditive, acoustic-phonetic and phonological methodology; the functional analysis of the utterances with the salient contours relies on the techniques of conversation analysis Y1 - 2003 SN - 0301-3294 ER -