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<shift>

shift

marks the point at which some paralinguistic feature of a series of utterances by any one speaker changes.

Module spokenTSSASH

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.ascribed @who
att.cmc @generatedBy
@featurea paralinguistic feature.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Suggested values
tempo
speed of utterance.
loud
loudness.
pitch
pitch range.
tension
tension or stress pattern.
rhythm
rhythmic qualities.
voice
voice quality.
@newspecifies the new state of the paralinguistic feature specified.
Status
Recommended
Datatype
teidata.enumerated

Classes and content

Member of
model.global.spoken
May contain
empty
Contained by

analysis

cmc

core

corpus

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

linking

msdescription

namesdates

nets

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Example

<u who="#LB">
  <shift feature="loud" new="f"/>Elizabeth</u>
<u who="#EB">Yes</u>
<u who="#LB">
  <shift feature="loud" new="normal"/>Come and try this
  <pause/>
  <shift feature="loud" new="ff"/>come on</u>
<!-- ... -->
<listPerson type="speakers">
  <person xml:id="LB"/>
  <person xml:id="EB"/>
</listPerson>

The word Elizabeth is spoken loudly, the words Yes and Come and try this with normal volume, and the words come on very loudly.

Schematron

<constraintSpec xmlns:sch="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" ident="shiftNew" scheme="schematron" xml:lang="en">
    <constraint>
      <sch:rule context="tei:shift">
        <sch:assert test="@new" role="warning">              
          The @new attribute should always be supplied; use the special value
          "normal" to indicate that the feature concerned ceases to be
          remarkable at this point.
        </sch:assert>
      </sch:rule>       
    </constraint>
  </constraintSpec>

Content model

<content>
  <empty/>
</content>