Library of Rassegna iberistica

Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | Geometric Explosion
Chapter | Corte prosódico al principio del enunciado: la ‘salida nula’

Corte prosódico al principio del enunciado: la ‘salida nula’

Abstract

When referring to statements in which a marked break occurs in discourse as a statement is being made the term ‘false start’ is used . The break occurs in monologues, that is, without interference from another speaker, and at the beginning of a statement. Studying 60 of these contexts taken from the C-Or-DiAL corpus (Corpus Oral Didáctico Anotado Lingüisticamente) and studied in corpus-driven analyses, about 20 somewhat marginal cases have been found, such as those in which there is mere stammering before the break or those that pose a question after the break, which we consider as belonging more to dialogue than to monologue. These statements with false starts have been classified according to the varying degrees in which they either inform or express.  It all depends on the purpose of the speaker in breaking off his speech:  in order to start with more precise information (‘Iniciar explicando’);  to add some information necessary for understanding what follows (‘Corte con retorno’);  to make clear that the speaker is responsible for, or the author of, what he is about to say (‘Con presencia del yo’);  to summarize information and transmit it with almost blunt brevity (‘De enunciación breve’);  to express something with greater emotion (‘De aumento de expresividad’).


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Language: it

Keywords Orality • Spanish as foreign language • Prosody

Copyright © 2016 Carlota Nicolás. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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