- …
unfinished sentence
- all capital letters
stressed prosodically, emphasising the words
- (pause)
a pause of more than two seconds
- =
latching between utterances, which indicates speech or vocal noise concurrent with the previous one
- underline
noted by the author for emphasis
- italics
indicating a word or phrase that will be discussed
- ( )
situational comments, noticeable non-verbal activities
- wo:::rd
prolongation of a sound, stretching the preceding sound: more colons indicate more stretch
- 1:2:3
episode 1, extract 2, speaking turn 3
Book contents
- Elastic Language
- Elastic Language
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Book part
- Conventional notations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical foundations
- 3 Elasticity theory
- 4 Methodology
- 5 Linguistic realisation of elastic language
- 6 Strategies of elastic language
- 7 Elastic language, power and gender
- 8 Elastic language and speech factors
- 9 General discussion
- 10 Conclusions and implications
- References
- Index
Conventional notations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2015
Book contents
- Elastic Language
- Elastic Language
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Book part
- Conventional notations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical foundations
- 3 Elasticity theory
- 4 Methodology
- 5 Linguistic realisation of elastic language
- 6 Strategies of elastic language
- 7 Elastic language, power and gender
- 8 Elastic language and speech factors
- 9 General discussion
- 10 Conclusions and implications
- References
- Index
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- Elastic LanguageHow and Why we Stretch our Words, pp. xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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