
منار منذر عبد المجيد البدري
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Manaar Munthir Abdulmajeed Al-Badri
PhD
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lecturer
College of Arts
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Department of English Language
[email protected]
Publication Date
Wed Jan 01 2014
Journal Name
Al-adab Journal
Publication Date
Thu Dec 15 2022
Journal Name
Al-adab Journal
Publication Date
Sat Dec 31 2022
Journal Name
Theory And Practice In Language Studies
Prosodic Cues of Narrative Segmentation in Robert Frost’s ‘Mending Wall’: A Phono-Pragmatic Exploration
There is much research on the syntax-semantics and the syntax-phonology interaction. However, the exact relation between prosodic patterns and informational structure (as part of pragmatics) is still to be investigated. In this empirical study, we challenge the view that prosody and pragmatics are two autonomous levels of grammar. This paper is an analysis of the narrative poem ‘Mending Wall’ recited by Robert Frost to explore the prosodic features and the associated pragmatic meanings. It is proposed that a set of intentionally manipulated suprasegmental features form a prosodic grammar that works in line with syntax and lexical choices to build the narrative discourse and achieve pragmatic meanings. The paper shows that the am
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