Abstract
This chapter assesses House's third functional orientation, namely the contribution of intonation to discourse-building process in Spanish of Buenos Aires. It analyses stretches of discourse beyond the individual tone unit, and shows how nuclear tone and boundary tone choices and pitch range changes affect interpretation of those tone units in virtue of their function in spoken discourse, and how participants in a conversation 'organize pieces of information that make up a longer discourse to indicate dependencies, coherence and discontinuities'. It attempts to do this within the framework of Relevance Theory. It aims to account for the meaning of tone choices in terms of procedural encoding. The chapter introduces the theoretical framework, in the field of pragmatics and prosody. It discusses three intonational contrasts and their contribution to information processing. It then examines the issue in light of other treatments of prosodic meaning, and considers whether data presented qualifies as procedural. Keywords: Buenos Aires Spanish; discourse-building process; intonational contrasts; pragmatics; procedural encoding; prosodic meaning; relevance theory; tone choice
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