Oh, er, phatic focus

Dafydd Gibbon, U Bielefeld

28 June 1997

 
• Contents
• Focus on focus
• Orientation in communication space
• The focus locus is hocus pocus*
• Ach so
• Ähm
• Äh
• The focus metaphor
• Structural focus
• Categorial focus (Steedman and others)
• Situated focus in communication
• Communication: Labelling vs. explanation
• Communication space: a first step
• Communication space I: compositionality
• Communication space II: situatedness
• Communication space III: operationality
• Phatic stylised focus I: calls (forms)
• Phatic stylised focus I: calls (functions)
• More phatic stylised intonations
• Generalising phatic stylised intonation
• Phatic stylised focus II: hesitations
• Prosody-particle-pair signs (1)
• Prosody-particle-pair signs (2)
• Attributes of type prosody
• Attributes of type particle
• Operational cycles and monitoring
• A phatic monitoring icon