Future prospects of research on prosody: the need for publicly available corpora. Comments on Margret Selting: "Prosody in interaction: State of the art"

Buchbeitrag

In her overview, Margret Selting makes the case for the claim that dealing with authentic conversation necessarily lies at the heart of an interactionallinguistic approach to prosody (see Selting this volume, Section 3.3). However, collecting and transcribing corpora of authentic interaction is a time-consuming enterprise. This fact often severely restricts what the individual researcher is able to do in terms of analysis within the scope of his or her resources. Still, for dealing with many of the desiderata Margret Selting points out in Section 5 of her extensive overview, the use of larger corpora seems to be required. In this commenting paper, I want to argue that future progress in research on prosody in interaction will essentially rest on the availability and use of large public corpora. After reviewing arguments for and against the use of public corpora, I will discuss some upshots regarding corpus design and issues of transcription of public corpora.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Prosodie ; Deutsch ; Interaktion ; Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Deppermann, Arnulf
• (when): 2010
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Amsterdam : Benjamins

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-2846
• Last update: 06.03.2025, 9:00 AM CET