Pragmatic and prosodic variability of sympathy utterances

• Mykola Kutsenko ^[1]
  1. [1] Military Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies
• Localización: Tendencias actuales en fonética experimental: cruce de disciplinas en el centenario del "Manual de Pronunciación Española" (Tomás Navarro Tomás) : [CIFE 2017 : VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Madrid 22-24/11/17] / coord. por Victoria Marrero Aguiar, Eva Estebas Vilaplana; Silvia Carmen Barreiro Bilbao (col.), Juan María Garrido Almiñana (col.), María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (col.), Nuria Polo Cano (col.), 2017, ISBN 978-84-697-7855-5, págs. 133-135
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The paper is dedicated to the problem of sympathy utterances actualization, whose prosodic variability is conditioned by the speaker’s pragmatic intention. In the introduction the problem of sympathy utterances classification is discussed. On the basis of the range of speaker’s communicative intentions the author singles out the following pragmatic types of sympathy utterances: compassion, consolation, encouragement as well as sympathy proper. Within the discussion part the author proves that each type of sympathy utterances is characterized by a definite set of prosodic means, determined by their specific pragmatic orientation.