Dialogue Strategies In English Lectures And Their Prosodic Realisation
Table 1:
Dialogue Strategies | Prosodic Devices |
Rhetorical questions | increased length of pauses, preceding or following the question, decrease of tempo, Falling terminal tones |
Question-answer | high key, decrease of tempo, increased loudness, increased length of pauses, Rising or Mid-level terminal tones |
Chains of questions | fast tempo, short or very short pauses between the questions, recurrent intonation patterns |
Routine questions | fast tempo, Low Key |