Talking about an emergency in an urgent situation: prosody and information
This paper deals with the role of prosody as a semantic component in media speech. Based on CNN’s live broadcast on 9/11, linguistic productions are analyzed as spontaneous but heavily constrained speech since the breaking news format and both the temporal and cognitive pressures shape the ensuing u...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/696 |