Discourse Intonation and University Lectures

• In Event: Transdisciplinary Approaches to International Teaching Assistant Research within Applied Linguistics

Summary

This presentation traces the history of lexicogrammatically features, which used a discourse-pragmatic approach to assess the role of prosody in NS and NNS TA discourse. The current intersection with the most recent perspectives on ITA discourse, which incorporate expanded models of communication skills in the classroom will also be discussed.

Abstract

By the 1990s, critical work had been conducted with regard to the leixcogrammatical features of classroom language such as question forms, discourse markers, and pronouns (Plakans, 1987; Rounds, 1990; Tyler et al, 1988). However, very little had been reported in terms of the role of prosody in classroom discourse particularly as it pertained to cross-cultural communication. This presentation traces the history of the work in this area, which used a discourse-pragmatic approach to assess the role of prosody in NS and NNS TA discourse (Pickering, 1999; 2001; Pickering & Wiltshire, 2004; Wennerstrom, 1997; 2001). The current intersection with the most recent perspectives on ITA discourse, which incorporate expanded models of communication skills in the classroom (Gorlay, 2015; Looney, 2015) will also be discussed.

Author

• Lucy Pickering, Texas A&M-Commerce