‹Speaking› Quotation Marks

Lampert, Martina

doi:10.3726/b13406

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“…By all evidence, this "somebody" is another politician that feels that his rights are infringed, his image might be 8 Unfortunately, the session took place long before the electronic archive of the State Duma became publicly accessible; thus, we cannot verify whether the current speaker marks the change back from the fictive to real communication by his delivery (pitch, prosody, etc.). A newly published multimodal analysis of quoting verbatim in English concludes that "the video data drawn from the internet largely lack any non-verbal cues" (Lampert 2018). This is in line with my own findings when comparing a later speech by Žirinovskij with the video record (Weiss 2013, example 23, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJ06jBLvuQ).…”

Section: Fictive Argumentationsupporting

confidence: 71%

Analogical reasoning with quotations? A spotlight on Russian parliamentary discourse

Weiß

2020

Journal of Pragmatics

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Section: Fictive Argumentationsupporting

confidence: 71%

Analogical reasoning with quotations? A spotlight on Russian parliamentary discourse

Weiß

2020

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Some corpus data on the production of speech reports finds prosodic breaks at the edges of DD (Jansen et al, 2001), but these are not always clearly present in the signal (Bolden, 2004;Hanote, 2015). Most other work on the production of speech reports focuses on marked excursions from a speaker's typical speech rate and pitch range for both DD and ID (Blackwell et al, 2015;Estelles-Arguedas, 2015;Klewitz & Couper-Kuhlen, 1999;Lampert, 2018); it's not clear whether this should correspond to any difference in prosodic organization. More is known about the prosody of some adjunct clauses.…”

Section: Discounting Via Prosodic Groupingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pragmatic representations and online comprehension: Lessons from direct discourse and causal adjuncts

Duff,

Anand,

Brasoveanu

et al. 2023

Glossa Psycholinguistics

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Studies on the reading of appositive relative clauses (ARCs) have found that ARCs seem to exhibit less influence in later parsing and decision-making than similar constructions (Dillon et al. 2014, 2017), a pattern we call discounting. Existing accounts often link discounting to the status of ARCs as independent segments in systems of pragmatic representation. This would predict discounting for other constructions as well. In this study, we test that prediction by investigating the reading of direct discourse speech reports and causal adjuncts in English. Diagnostics supplied by the theoretical literature show that these constructions contribute the same independent segments as ARCs in two different systems of pragmatic organization: direct discourse reports contribute an independent speech act, and causal adjuncts contribute their own discourse units. Nevertheless, in a series of five experiments, we find no evidence of ARC-like discounting for either. We conclude that discounting should not be linked to either of these pragmatic representations, and discuss the outlook for other approaches to the phenomenon.

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“…Therefore, based on this study, it seems premature to argue that direct quotation is expressed in a systematic fashion in spoken language (see also Sams, 2010). Using data from speeches given to an audience by experienced speakers, Lampert (2018) looked at potential correlates of direct quotation, such as pause durations, F0, or intensity, in English, but did not find a coherent and systematic picture of how quotation is realized in spoken language. Studying data from spontaneous interviews, Oliveira and Cunha (2004) examined whether the boundaries of directly quoted sequences are expressed acoustically in Brazilian Portuguese.…”

Section: Quotation In Spoken Language: the State Of The Artmentioning

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Do We Pronounce Quotation? An Analysis of Name-informing and Non-name-informing Contexts

Schlechtweg

Härtl

2019

Lang Speech

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Quotation marks are a tool to refer to the linguistic form of an expression. For instance, in cases of so-called pure quotation as in “Hanover” has three syllables, they point to the syllabic characteristics of the name of the town of Hanover. Cases of this nature differ from sentences like Hanover is a town in New Hampshire, in which Hanover is used denotationally and, thus, refers to the town of Hanover itself. Apart from quotation marks, other means such as italics, bold, capitalization, or air quotes represent potential means to signal a non-stereotypical use of an item in the written or gestural mode. It is far less clear, however, whether acoustic correlates of quotation marks exist. The present contribution aims at investigating this issue by focusing on instances of quotation, in which the conventionalized name of a lexical concept is highlighted by means of quotation marks, either together with or without an additional lexical quotational marker, such as so-called, on the lexical level (cf. The so-called “vuvuzela” is an instrument from South Africa vs. The “vuvuzela” is an instrument from South Africa). The data clearly show that quotation marks are pronounced, primarily triggering a lengthening effect, independently of whether they appear together with or without a name-informing context. The results of the experiments are interpreted against the background of a pragmatic implementation of quotation marks in general as well as in spoken discourse in particular.

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‹Speaking› Quotation Marks

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Analogical reasoning with quotations? A spotlight on Russian parliamentary discourse

Analogical reasoning with quotations? A spotlight on Russian parliamentary discourse

Pragmatic representations and online comprehension: Lessons from direct discourse and causal adjuncts

Do We Pronounce Quotation? An Analysis of Name-informing and Non-name-informing Contexts

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