Prosodic salience and the emergence of new decisions: On approving responses to proposals in Finnish workplace interaction

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 44, Issue 6-7, 2012, Pages 843-862

  Stevanovic, Melisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Decision making; Emotion; Pitch contours; Proposals; Prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861336964     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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