Home - Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Spoken Communication
Editor: Massimo Pettorino, Antonella Giannini, Isabella Chiari and Francesca Dovetto
Date Of Publication: Sep 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-2276-3
Isbn: 1-4438-2276-0
The overall goal of the volume is to offer an extensive and qualified description of the current research that may stimulate genuine attention on Spoken communication.

The volume gives updated insights on theoretical aspects, specific case studies and the issues of speech representation as well. In the first part different aspects of the cognitive and pragmatic perspectives are analyzed. An insightful account of language pathologies, multimodal spoken dialog interaction and voice expressiveness is given in part two, while sign languages, representation of intonation and automatic detection of disfluencies in speech transcriptions are investigated in the last section.

Massimo Pettorino is professor of phonetics at the Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale and director of the GSCP (Gruppo di Studio sulla Comunicazione Parlata) special interest group on spoken communication of the Italian linguistics society (SLI). His studies are related to phonetics with particular attention to the articulatory and acoustic correlates of some linguistic phenomena in different languages. At present he is studying the rhythmical and prosodic aspects of spoken communication.

Antonella Giannini is professor at the Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale. She works in the fields of prosody and articulatory and acoustic phonetics. Her research includes: devoicing of Polish stops, emphatic consonants in Arabic, aspirated/unaspirated stops in Hindi, coarticulation in Italian and French, Dagbani consonantal system, cliks in Zulu and hesitation phenomena in spontaneous Italian.

Isabella Chiari (PhD) is research fellow in "La Sapienza" University of Rome where she teaches General and Computational Linguistics. She is mostly involved in methodological and theoretical issues in computational and statistical linguistics.

Francesca M. Dovetto is associate professor of Linguistics at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research interests are in linguistic historiography, with particular attention to the interactions between linguistics and natural sciences (phisiology, production and language perception, speech-language pathologies), etymology, lexicon and morphology of written and spoken Italian.

Price Uk Gbp: 39.99
Price Us Usd: 59.99

Sample pdf (including Table of Contents)

We recommend

Language and Literature
Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J. R. R. Tolkien

History
Arctic Discourses

Education
The Supportive School: Wellbeing and the Young Adolescent

Interesting reviews

From Navigating Music and Sound Education

“We rarely have the opportunity and time to engage with the practicalities of music teaching through the lens of evidence-based practice. This book provides us with a wonderful exception that is accessible to beginning and established teachers. It contains a wide range of stimulating and thought-provoking material that draws on real-world experiences and events, which are contextualised, informed and structured by theory. This is a powerful combination that we can visit again and again for insight and inspiration. Congratulations to all involved, particularly the editors for shaping such a valuable contribution!”
—Professor Graham F. Welch, University of London; President, International Society of Music Education

“Navigating music and sound education draws together a range of issues increasingly acknowledged to be at the basis of reflective and effective music learning and teaching: social settings, cultural dimensions, gender, indigeneity, varying cognitive approaches, inter-disciplinary connections, technology, types of learning, and creativity. It opens up areas of pedagogy that go beyond classroom methodology to acknowledge student individuality and encourage music learning and teaching grounded in the reality of students’ musical and social lives. It will be invaluable for those training to become educators and for teachers already in the field.”
—Associate Professor Peter Dunbar-Hall, University of Sydney

“This book brings an important contribution to music teacher education as it challenges the readers to rethink their paradigms of music education. It highlights the importance of preparing a reflective teacher, autonomous, creative and conscious of the multifaceted and multicultural locus in which they will work. The book also draws on the importance for music teachers to consider the context in which they work, and establish a dialog between local musical traditions, informal music practices and global trends of music teaching and learning. Most importantly, all chapters are in one way or another derived from research carried out on specific areas, thus stressing the importance of the research informed practice in music education.”
—Professor Liane Hentschke, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; International Society of Music Education Immediate Past President

Many readers will appreciate Steve Dillon and Kathy Hirche’s description of the future of education in their work with dynamic technological contexts.

Navigating Music and Sound Education is a wonderful guide and resource for pre-service music teachers, for teachers in the field, and for teacher educators.

It offers a range of fresh perspectives on the state of music education as it is and as it might be. Kari K Veblen

Navigating Music and Sound Education is an ambitious project which features current research from 20 individuals whose professional identities run the gamut from musician to songwriter to student to educator to music therapist to ethnomusicologist. The book’s scope is perhaps the most exciting aspect of Navigating Music and Sound Education.
Kari K Veblen
University of Western Ontario
British Journal of Music Education
October 2011