230270 Gibbon: Language Models: Intonation and Discourse (Thursday 14-16, C01-273) (merged with `Language and media')

This class has been combined with the class `Language and media' (Gibbon) because the N.N. position is still vacant.

After discussion with class participants the following idea for combining the classes (rather than cancelling one of them) emerged:

1. The scientific content of the course will be discourse in the media, particularly spoken discourse. One central topic will be intonation and related properties of speech, methods of describing and analysing such properties of speech (computational phonetics; transcription techniques). A further, related topic, will be the structure of discourse both in speech and in writing, from straightforward speech to multimedia hyperdocuments.
2. The practical operational goal of the course will be to construct a multimedia document describing the content of the course along the scientific lines developed in the course.

Revised class notes are being developed.

`You said ``Yes'', but your tone of voice seemed to disagree ...' There are aspects of language, such as intonation, paralanguage, and visual language such as gesture and position (so-called `body language') which are not treated in grammars, lexica, phonologies and so on. The class will be concerned with one of these: intonation or speech melody, and how it is used to structure sentences, contributions to dialogue, and indeed to control the flow of dialogue, express power relations, influence participants in dialogue, emphasise and de-emphasise. The class will treat models of pragmatics and their relation to intonation, practical analysis of dialogues, and the phonetic analysis of the fundamental frequency of speech.

The class is part of the re-designed `Hauptstudium English/Anglistik'; students of other courses who are intereested in the relation between phonology and pragmatics, in particular of General Linguistics and Computer Science, are welcome to take part.

Preparatory reading consists of selected chapters on your favourite languages from the following recommended textbook:

Daniel Hirst & Albert di Cristo (1998). Intonation Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Further information, a reading list, and further materials will be available on our website

http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/

and in notices on C6.