Children might combine gesture and prosody to express a pragmatic meaning such as a
request, information focus, uncertainty or politeness, before they can convey these …

This chapter looks at how (Im) politeness is communicated through non-verbal means,
including prosody and gesture. Brown and Prieto show that multiple acoustic features …

Research in the past few decades has claimed that high or rising fundamental frequency
(F0) signals a set of meanings related to the expression of politeness (eg, deference …

In this chapter we address sociophonetics and intonation. We note complementary trends
among scholars of intonation to delve into social factors as a source of variability and among …

La cortesía tiene un papel fundamental en la comunicación y la adaptación intercultural
(Spencer-Oatey y Franklin 2009). Es por ello que el conocimiento y la adquisición de las …

While previous research on language development has highlighted the facilitating role of
gesture (mainly deictic gesture) in children's early access to meaning, little is known about …

This thesis examines the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of questions with
a bouletic bias and how they are prosodically realized by German speakers. Biased …