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Stratégies pausale et intonative des connecteurs discursifs dans le vœu présidentiel de 2011
Pause and Intonation Strategies for Discursive Connectors in 2011 Presidential Greetings

Author(s): Perihane Adel Hassan
Subject(s): Phonetics / Phonology, Pragmatics
Published by: Risoprint
Keywords: connector; intonation; pause; prosody; argumentation;

Summary/Abstract: This article constitutes an analysis of the discursive connectors exploited by President Nicolas Sarkozy in his greetings for the year 2011. Analyzes based on the study of the relation between the argumentative function of the connectors, the suprasegmental features and the pause. This study required the use of prosody analyis software.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 402-417
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French