`Attention, I'm violating a maxim!' A unifying account of the final rise. Westera, M. In Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), 2013.
Paper abstract bibtex Declarative sentences that end with a rising pitch in English (among other languages) have many uses. I single out several prominent uses that the literature so far has treated mostly independently. I present a compositional, unifying analysis, where the final rising pitch marks the violation of a conversational maxim, and its steepness indicates the speaker's emotional activation. Existing theories are reproduced from these basic assumptions. I believe it contributes to a solid theoretical foundation for future work on the semantics and pragmatics of intonation.
@inproceedings{Westera:13semdial,
abstract = {Declarative sentences that end with a rising pitch in English (among other languages) have many uses. I single out several prominent uses that the literature so far has treated mostly independently. I present a compositional, unifying analysis, where the final rising pitch marks the violation of a conversational maxim, and its steepness indicates the speaker's emotional activation. Existing theories are reproduced from these basic assumptions. I believe it contributes to a solid theoretical foundation for future work on the semantics and pragmatics of intonation.},
author = {Matthijs Westera},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial)},
date-added = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
date-modified = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
title = {{`Attention, I'm violating a maxim!' A unifying account of the final rise}},
url = {http://semdial.org/anthology/Z13-Westera_semdial_0019.pdf},
year = {2013},
Bdsk-Url-1 = {https://www.dropbox.com/s/3j5nnlat0k18gd6/Westera%202013%20-%20attention%20final%20rise%20SemDial%20final.pdf}}
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