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Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences pp 207–225Cite as

A Complex Approach to Prosodic Discourse Variation

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The confluence of several fields of knowledge , of the work of several linguistic and non-linguistic disciplines allow us to approach a holistic perspective of our research on speech within the complexity theory . It allows us to design the interconnections that emerge from language within the interactions of its means of expression . This perspective leads us to find a new phonological interpretation of prosody , lexical, grammar and speech systems in virtue of intention through speech multidimensional analysis. This also makes possible to explain and describe the bases of a group of semantically and pragmatically founded attractors defined for the study of intonation and a new concept of underlying structure formed by emergent features from the morphogenetic processes of the language systems. This is shown in a case study of a dialogue from the Cuban movie Fresa y chocolate.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    An overview in Calsamiglia and Tuson (2004) and Morales Lopez (2011).

  2. 2.

    On the new epistemology , the different variants and specifically on the thought of complexity , we will only mention some key works: Prigogine (1983); Capra (2002); Goodwing (1998); Juarrero (1999); Morin (1994); Kauffman (2003); Kennealy (2010); among others.

  3. 3.

    Many researchers define multidiscipline as the “convergent research effort in various disciplines”, such as biophysics or sociolinguistics . Interdisciplinarity presupposes multidiscipline insofar as it has the same goals, but it involves the determination of a new object of study. It is the case of genetic engineering. Transdisciplinarity includes the two previous ways of doing science, but it tries to find points of contact between the different branches, finding these points of contact in a step by step analysis of the different possible interactions.

  4. 4.

    A proposal of these tools for this kind of intonation studies can be found in García Riverón (2005a).

  5. 5.

    García Riverón (2002, 2003).

  6. 6.

    It is very encouraging that the proposal of a cognitive and comprehensive approach we propose of the communication unit at a first level, a unit that certainly has its roots in the Vygotskian psychology, also arises in other latitudes in which other trends in psychology have proliferated. See McNeill (1999) for a similar proposal to develop the “growth points” for the study of gestures.

  7. 7.

    García Riverón (1998: 77).

  8. 8.

    For a full understanding of the joints see the cited literature, especially: Pardo and Losada (2004); García Riverón et al. (2008).

  9. 9.

    Caballero (1995, 1996).

  10. 10.

    The number above the statement, signals in each example the intonation pattern according to the system described for the Spanish variant of Cuba (Appendix 12.1). The number in parentheses refers to the order of the statements in the sample. Indication of the gestures is placed in brackets in the same line of the statement.

  11. 11.

    These dominants were defined in 1998 (García Riverón 1998). Later, researchers of the Grupo-Red have continued working to expand or improve the semantic-pragmatic discursive categories found analyzed in the different discourses .

  12. 12.

    See García Riverón (2005a).

  13. 13.

    We reproduce the full text of a scene of the film, which was fully analyzed, although for reasons of length and to avoid unnecessary tautologies, only the discursive analysis of a few sentences in which these processes are clearly manifested is submitted for the consideration of the reader.

  14. 14.

    The numbering in the text corresponds to the general numbering of the statements in the film.

  15. 15.

    In French in the original: Where is the movies magazine?

  16. 16.

    Conversation in the Cathedral.

  17. 17.

    We understand ideology as Van Dijk (2003), as a set of beliefs shared by a social group.

  18. 18.

    The system is made of Entonemes (E), Entonemes Variants (VE) and Entonemes Realizations (RE).

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  1. Grupo-Red de Complejidad y Lenguajes de La Habana, Havana, Cuba

    Raquel García Riverón

  2. Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba

    Alejandro F. Marrero Montero

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  1. Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics, Scripta (FFI2016-80482P), UBICS, CUSC, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Àngels Massip-Bonet

  2. Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística, Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico

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  3. Department de Lingüística General, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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12.1 Appendix

12.1 Appendix

Intonation System of the Spanish Variant of Cuba (García Riverón 1996).Footnote 17

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García Riverón, R., Marrero Montero, A.F. (2019). A Complex Approach to Prosodic Discourse Variation. In: Massip-Bonet, À., Bel-Enguix, G., Bastardas-Boada, A. (eds) Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04598-2_12

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