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Irony in a judicial debate: Analyzing the subtleties of irony while testing the subtleties of an annotation scheme
No full textIrony has been studied by famous scholars across centuries, as well as more recently in cognitive and pragmatic research. The prosodic and visual signals of irony were also studied. Irony is a communicative act in which the Sender's literal goal is to communicate a meaning x, but through this meaning the Sender has the goal to communicate another meaning, y, which is contrasting, sometimes even opposite, to meaning x. In this case we have an antiphrastic irony. So an ironic act is an indirect speech act, in that its true meaning, the one really intended by the Sender, is not the one communicated by the literal meaning of the communicative act: it must be understood through inferences by the Addressee. The ironic statement may concern an event, object or person, and in this case, the Addressee, or a third person, or even the Sender itself (Self-irony). In this paper we define irony in terms of a goal and belief view of communication, and show how the annotation scheme, the Anvil-Score, and illustrate aspects of its expressive power by applying it to a particular case: ironic communication in a judicial debate. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V
Un tentativo di classificazione delle vocali toniche senesi
No full textLo scopo primario di questa ricerca è quello di fornire una prima classificazione uditiva della V toniche dell’italiano di Siena. Il materiale linguistico considerato è costituito da 1000 vocali toniche estratte da brani di parlato elicitato mediante lettura. Il sistema vocalico senese è rappresentato su scala uditiva in bark. La discussione dei dati mette in luce la problematicità delle procedure di normalizzazione vocalica
Sulla prosodia della domanda con soggetto postverbale in due varietà di italiano toscano
No full textCoproduction of speech and emotion: bimodal audio-visual changes of consonant and vowel labial targets
No full textThis paper concerns the bimodal transmission of emotive
speech and describes how the expression of joy, surprise,
sadness, disgust, anger, and fear, leads to visual and acoustic
target modifications in some Italian phonemes. Current
knowledge on the audio-visual transmission of emotive speech
traditionally concerns global prosodic and intonational
characteristics of speech and facial configurations. In this
research we intend to integrate this approach with the analysis of the interaction between labial configurations, peculiar to
each emotion, and the articulatory lip movements defined by
phonetic-phonological rules, specific to the vowels and
consonants /’a/, /b/, /v/ ([1], [2]). Moreover, we present the
correlations between articulatory data and the spectral features
of the co-produced acoustic signal
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