@inbook{f25b90f8dd4e447f808ceed3ee0c76d1,
title = "Prosodic style-shifting in preadolescent peer-group interactions in a working-class suburb of Paris",
abstract = "In this chapter, we study the variable use of phrase-final intonation contours in French by male adolescents recorded in guided interviews in a multi-ethnic working-class suburb of Paris. We show that speakers use pragmatically neutral rising or falling intonation when listing target words depicted on images shown by a fieldworker, but resort to a characteristic rising-falling intonation attributed to a working-class youth vernacular in contact with immigrant languages when negotiating the interpretation of pictures or competing for the floor with their friends listening to the interview. These instances of intra-speaker prosodic variation are analyzed as style-shifting (Bell 1984, 2001) where speakers draw on different prosodic resources to signal change in footing, i.e. their orientation to their own and others{\textquoteright} role in the interaction (Goffman 1981) or the propositional content of utterances put forward by other participants in the conversational exchange. It is argued that phrase-final rising-falling intonation, typical in certain types of imperative in French, has a much broader pragmatic meaning in working-class youth vernacular where it seems to function as a micro-level style feature indexing common ground and in-group affiliation with members of the adolescent peer group.",
author = "Zsuzsanna Fagyal and Stewart, {Christopher M}",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1075/silv.8.04fag",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9789027234889",
series = "Studies in Language Variation",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "75--99",
editor = "Friederike Kern and Margret Selting",
booktitle = "Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas",
address = "Netherlands",
}