Jumping out of context - Jumping out of tone

The study presented here investigates how different degrees of conceptual integration, as predicted by direct and indirect reported speech, effect speakers’ prosodic behaviour in interaction. It makes a threeway distinction between authentic direct, false direct and indirect reported speech and predicts that greater conceptual distance, predicted by authentic direct reported speech, will lead to a greater deviation from the speaker’s prosodic habitus with respect to register shifts, while the greater conceptual integration assumed in indirect reported speech will lead to greater prosodic integration.