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Sound patterns in interaction: Cross-linguistic studies from conversation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2007

Anne Wichmann
Anne Wichmann
Affiliation:
Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK, [email protected]
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Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen & Cecilia E. Ford (eds.) Sound patterns in interaction: Cross-linguistic studies from conversation. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004. Pp. 404. Hb $156.00.

A successor to Couper-Kuhlen & Selting 1996, this volume contains a similar collection of papers at the interface between phonetics and conversational interaction. There is a lengthy introductory essay by the editors, followed by 12 chapters grouped into three broad sections: “Turn-taking,” “Projecting and expanding turns,” and “Connecting across turns.” Each chapter has a separate bibliography, and the volume has a general index. Seven of the contributions describe British or American English, while a further five address the features of German, Finnish, and Japanese. All the contributions represent work carried out strictly within the theoretical framework of Conversation Analysis (CA), an approach that lends itself well to the study of turn-taking.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 259 - 263
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth, & Selting, Margret (eds.) (1996). Prosody in conversation: Interactional studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cruttenden, Alan (1986). Intonation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wichmann, Anne (2000). Intonation in text and discourse. London: Longman.