Repetition poses certain problems for pragmatics, as evidenced by Sperber and Wilson's
claim that “the effects of repetition on utterance interpretation are by no means constant” …

In this article, I introduce the aims and scope of a project examining other-repetition in
natural conversation. This introduction provides the conceptual and methodological …

This article examines the prosody and sequential organisation of repeats in French talk-in-
interaction. Repeats in French are used for initiating repair, as well as for registering receipt …

The research question which this chapter addresses is motivated by the growing awareness
that speakers who are engaged in verbal interaction with one another employ adaptive …

This paper investigates how speakers of English can use the prosodic design of utterances
to identity parts of these utterances as instances of reported speech. We will show that …

This volume demonstrates the synergies that can result from interdisciplinary collaboration.
Responding to the growing interest in the interface between prosody and pragmatics, it …

This article focuses on the basic pragmatic functions of a specific type of repetition, namely
local diaphonic repetitions, which will be viewed as markers of dialogue structure. We …

The paper aims to examine the role that prosody plays in constructing the context in which
utterances become interpretable. The realisations of some prosodic features at particular …

Repetition has been described as one of the most misunderstood phenomena in
psycholinguistics (Ochs & Schieffelin, 1983). Indeed, repetition is a human, social activity …

Rather than focusing on conversation as one context among many in which to study
prosody, this paper approaches prosody as one set of resources and practices among many …