Pragmatics and Prosody

Illocution, Modality, Attitude, Information Patterning and Speech Annotation

a cura di Mello, Heliana; Panunzi, Alessandro; Raso, Tommaso

Heliana Mello studied at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and the City University of New York. She is associate professor of English and Linguistics at UFMG. Her research has focused on language contact and change, second language acquisition, and corpus linguistics. She is currently co-coordinator of the C-ORAL-BRASIL corpus project and coordinates the LINDSEI-BR project (spoken English interlanguage by Brazilian learners).

Alessandro Panunzi studied at the University of Florence and the University of Turin. He is currently research fellow at the University of Florence, where he teaches Computational Linguistics. His main interests range from Semantics to Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Italian Grammar. He worked in national and European projects dedicated to the establishment of Italian Language Resources at the LABLITA lab (University of Florence).

Tommaso Raso studied at the University of Naples and at UCLA. He was professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Venice and is now professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. His main interests in the past were Medieval Italian Philology and Professional Writing. In recent years his main interests have been Spontaneous Speech Corpus Linguistics and Speech Pragmatics.

Collana: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca

Comitato Scientifico: Dip. Italianistica Biblioteca digitale – Linguistica

Most of the papers collected in this book resulted from presentations and discussions undertaken during the V Lablita Workshop that took place at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on August 23-25, 2011. The workshop was held in conjunction with the II Brazilian Seminar on Pragmatics and Prosody. The guiding themes for the joint event were illocution, modality, attitude, information patterning and speech annotation. Thus, all papers presented here are concerned with theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of speech. Among the papers in this volume, there are different theoretical orientations, which are mirrored through the methodological designs of studies pursued. However, all papers are based on the analysis of actual speech, be it from corpora or from experimental contexts trying to emulate natural speech. Prosody is the keyword that comes out from all the papers in this publication, which indicates the high standing of this category in relation to studies that are geared towards the understanding of major elements that are constitutive of the structuring of speech.