Analysing Conversation

BEATRICE SZCZEPEK REED is Lecturer in TESOL at the University of York, UK. She is the author of the monograph Prosodic Orientation in English Conversation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and numerous articles on prosody and talk-in-interaction. Her research explores prosody as an interactional resource, cross-cultural aspects of turn-taking, the interface between speech and singing, and teaching pronunciation to learners of English. Her main teaching specialisms are phonetics and phonology, conversation analysis and English pronunciation.

'Beatrice Szczepek Reed has written a lucid introduction to English prosody for scholars working with interactional data. This is an invaluable resource for both students and researchers like myself who appreciate the importance of prosody and phonetics for understanding social interaction in English but who need much more grounding in the concepts, terms and techniques of this highly sophisticated area of study. Crisp audio clips enliven Szczepek Reed's examples and offer essential exposure to details of prosody in common varieties of English.' - Cecilia E. Ford, Professor of English and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

• List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsPreliminariesPitch: IntroductionPitch: IntonationPitch: Range and RegisterTime: Sound and Syllable DurationSpeech RateSpeech RhythmPausesLoudnessVoice QualityOutlook: Future Issues in Research on Prosody in ConversationAnswers to ExercisesAppendix: Transcription ConventionsGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex.