How prosody marks shifts in footing in classroom discourse
David Skidmore; Murakami, Kyoko · University of Westminster Research
Prosody refers to features of speech such as intonation, volume and pace. In this paper, we examine teacher–student dialogue in an English lesson at a secondary school in England, using Conversation Analysis notation to mark features of prosody. We also make connections with Goffman’s theoretical concept of footing. We show that, within an episode of teacher…