Re: RT list: Re: Prosody and Discourse Connectives

Dear Qiufen,

Deirdre Wilson and I wrote a paper a couple of years back outlining some
of the ways in which the pragmatics of prosody might be approached. This
includes discussion of procedural meaning. The reference is: Wilson, D.
and T. Wharton (2006) Relevance and prosody. /Journal of Pragmatics/ 38:
1559-1579._
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In my forthcoming book, Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication (CUP), I
develop some of these ideas with reference to Diane Blakemore's work on
procedural meaning and discourse connectives.

Having said that, it's not clear to me that we'd want to single out
prosody and discourse connectives as being the two 'main' types of
procedural information used in British English (if I am understanding
you correctly). I don't have any figures, but would imagine that
pronouns are more common in speech than connectives (or at least as
common as connectives). Pronouns are, of course, excellent candidates
for encoding procedural meaning.

Best wishes,

Tim

Q.Yu@lboro.ac.uk wrote:
> Dear all
>
> Does anybody know of any literature that argues that prosody and
> discourse connectives are the two main procedural information used in
> British English?
>
> It will be of great help if you could suggest some sources.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Qiufen
>
>
>
>
Received on Sat Feb 21 09:32:27 2009