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Functions of Language - Volume 9, Issue 1, 2002
Volume 9, Issue 1, 2002
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Confrontation and support in bonobo-human discourse
pp.: 1–38 (38)More LessAs part of a program to explore the communicative abilities of bonobo apes within the human-ape culture at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University, we made two complementary analyses of a conversation between Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Kanzi. We made both a conversation analysis and a lexico-grammatical analysis of their interaction. The conversation analysis revealed the participants negotiating the interpersonal meanings of confrontation and support, while the lexico-grammatical analysis revealed the ideational domain of the confrontation and support. Although many of the contributions of both participants did not fully express all the relevant meanings, both participants interpreted each other’s contributions in terms of their relevance to the patterns of interpersonal and ideational meanings being expressed in the conversation. We conclude that Kanzi’s considerable language abilities have been underestimated. First, Kanzi (despite his limited syntax) and Sue jointly construe a recognizable social world through discourse. Second, in exchanging discourse roles with Sue, Kanzi negotiates the asymmetrical power relation between himself and Sue. Finally, Kanzi’s accomplishment suggests that discourse semantics is a powerful motivation for the evolution of both interpersonal and ideational grammar.
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Rhythmic hierarchy in monologue and dialogue
Author(s): Radan Martinecpp.: 39–59 (21)More LessThis paper presents a hierarchical model of rhythm and shows its functioning in both monologue and dialogue. Rhythm is seen as articulating speech in both linguistic expression and content, at several levels simultaneously. Each one of the rhythmic levels is formed by rhythmic waves and transitions. Isochrony within waves at one level is formed by periodic occurrences of wave accents from the next-lower level or from a level further below. Since it features both rhythmic regularity and irregularity at various rhythmic levels, the model can account for different degrees of rhythmicality of different types of texts. The hierarchical model of rhythm is placed in the context of other models and the rhythmic patterns of two dialogic passages are compared in detail. Different rhythmic patterns in dialogue are related to different relationships between interactants. The rhythmic analyses are supported by an independent analysis of discourse patterns.
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