Looking for attitudes in corpora

Author: Anne Wichmann

Source: Language and Computers, From the COLT's mouth ... and others'. Edited by Leiv Egil Breivik and Angela Hasselgren , pp. 247-261(15)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Abstract:

The most elusive and least understood aspect of intonation is its 'attitudinal' function. We intuitively recognise different 'tones of voice', those meanings which seem to be encoded in how something is said rather than what is said. It is not yet possible to identify systematically the role that intonation, and other features of prosody, play in generating such meanings, nor is it yet quite clear what kinds of meanings these might be. Based on an analysis of the International Corpus of English (British), this study investigates instead the various ways we choose to refer to tone of voice, both in speech and in writing, and discusses the various kinds of meaning that we seem to recognise. In this way it is hoped that we can create a broad framework for further investigation, based on naturally-occurring observations.

Document Type: Regular paper

Publication date: 2002-06-01

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