Der Ton macht den Sinn. Prosodische Differenzierungen bei syntaktischer Indifferenz als Lehrstoff

Autor: Ewald Lang
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik. 40:172-188
ISSN: 2365-953X
0049-8653
DOI: 10.1007/bf03379839
Popis: Looking back at the 1980ies, we realize that linguistic research on the role of intonation patterns in speech production and comprehension has been remarkably intensifi ed and diversifi ed. Prosody has become a constituent part of linguistic curricula, there are excellent text-books available as well as incredibly sensitive tools for analysing speech data. However, these achievements have not yet infl uenced the way grammar is taught at school. The article aims at bridging this regrettable gap by recommending a teaching unit that seeks to link grammar lessons with lessons on literature by giving intonation courses on the basis of various sorts of literary texts. The plea for prosody lessons draws on tokens of four kinds of texts with increasing complexity which may reveal the niceties and subtleties of intonation. We fi rst examine a brand of formulaic proverbs with distinctive prosody, then we look at a TV spot that plays on an ambiguous slogan, next we note the varying intonation contours which can be assigned to sentential coordinations, fi nally we explore the role of prosody in Franz Kafka’s celebrated parable »Up in the gallery«, which no doubt forms a paragon case for the teaching unit to be outlined.
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