0404 – Pauses As Intonational Devices In Quotes and Sub-Clauses

2022.02.08 – 0404 – Pauses As Intonational Devices In Quotes and Sub-Clauses They are used as intonational devices in quotes, brackets/parenthesis and sub-clausesAs we saw previously when we talked about pitch and intonation, we leave a micro-gap either side of a quote from someone else to indicate that they are their words, not ours. The quote itself is often also said in a slightly different pitch and at a slower speed: “Perkins told us [pause] ‘I’ll sue if those allegations are repeated’ [pause] and then thumped our reporter in the chest”.  “The company says it’s [pause] the best camera of its kind [pause] on the market”.Similarly, the pause is used to verbalise a phrase that would perhaps be a sub-clause or in brackets, in the written word:“And you can get her new novel [pause] which is the second in the ‘Blandford’ trilogy [pause] with our exclusive discount code”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.