Transgressing trough semantic prosody with lexical smoothing over
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prosody and speech acts, unspoken, implicit meaning, FrenchAbstract
In our speeches we by-pass easily linguistic taboos with the implicit. It explains why the significant prosody (studied in phonopragmatic research) holds a so important place among the resources of multimodality. Thanks to the discretion of vocal signs, the speaker can transmit ideas, opinions, etc., that, if s/he expressed them with words, might shock the addressee, upset him/her or make him/her strongly react (particularly with aggressive or politically incorrect words); this could establish a breach in the conventions and the societal codes, in the rules of communication, or even a monoside communicative break-up. Vocal signs thus allow the speaker to avoid safely or almost safely many lexical taboos, as for example: to be hurtful, malevolent or rough without facing the consequences, to reduce the impact of the aggression, to let see lack of concern toward the interlocutor’s feeling, to pretend we agree with him/her. With examples taken from a corpus of French speakers conversations (recorded or not), the target is to point out what vocal signs are made of and what are their meanings, as well as their effects (expected or not) upon the hearer.
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