Prosody is strongly influenced by situational variation along conceptional parameters, such as the degree of communicative collaboration, the degree of dialogicity, the degree of planning, or the degree of familiarity between partners. Prosodic research, however, still focuses more on decontextualized "prosodic grammars" than on prosodic variation itself. This book, which gathers contributions from the "Prosody and conceptional variation" panel at the Deutscher Romanistentag held in 2017 in Zürich, tackles methodological and theoretical issues of this interplay. Based on empirical analysis of a wide range of communicative situations, the book shows how phonetic, pragmatic, textual, and interactional perspectives can help to better understand how prosodic features and communicative settings are interrelated.

Alexander M. Teixeira Kalkhoff teaches romance linguistics at German and Austrian universities. His areas of interest include gestalt phonology, prosody, structuring of spoken language on all levels, construction grammar, and linguistic epistemology.
Maria Selig is teaching romance linguistics at the University of Regensburg.
Her research interests focus on language change and variation. She is especially interested in the spoken-written research paradigm and its impact on linguistics.
Christine Mooshammer is teaching phonetics and phonology at the Humboldt-
Universität zu, Berlin. The main focus of her research is on speech production on several levels as well as the role of prosody in production and perception.

Prosody modeling - Conceptional variation - Data collection - Prosodic breaks - Intonational phrasing - Prosodic prominence - Prosodic features - Information structure