Dafydd Gibbon, Margret Selting

• Inhalt: 1. Überblick 2. Beschreibungskategorien für Intonation 3. Transkriptionskonventionen 4. Intonationsverläufe 5. Kontextbeschreibung 6. Semantische Diskursentwicklung 7. Zur Wechselwirkung von Intonation und Diskursverlauf
• The intonation of a stretch of German dialogue, taken from a listener participation programme about housing problems, is investigated in respect of its function in discourse development. A selection of formal properties of intonation is described; these include pitch accents, understood as pulse-like variations in pitch, and the properties of sequences of such accents. In particular the iterative character of accentuation and the cumulation of accent patterns with similar properties is show to configure both turn-taking processes and the semantic development of the dialogue. These relations are interpreted as having strategic value for the role of the moderator.