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Linguistic prosody involves the rhythm and melody of speech. It implicitly enhances or modifies the explicit meaning of spoken words. The literature on linguistic prosody related to …
The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the theory, research, and applications of nonverbal communication. Authored by …
When is language considered'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between'impoliteness' …
Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …
This book presents a systematic hypothesis testing approach to the assessment of speech processing skills in children, and is based on the popular courses run by the authors. The …
To avoid a sarcastic message being understood in its unintended literal meaning, in microtexts such as messages on Twitter. com sarcasm is often explicitly marked with the …
This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony, deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and …
Traditional theories of sarcasm treat it as a case of a speaker's meaning the opposite of what she says. Recently,'expressivists' have argued that sarcasm is not a type of speaker …
Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use, subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in our interaction with others …