Intonation In Text And Discourse

Author : Anne Wichmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317892342

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It is clear that a printed text provides the reader with more information than the words alone. This includes punctuation marks, capitalisation, paragraphs, headings and sub-headings, all of which help the reader to understand how the words are organised into sentences, and sentences are organised into a coherent text. In a spoken text, this typographical information is necessarily absent. So how do readers and speakers provide equivalent information to the listener? Intonation in Text and Discourse describes the way in which speech melody, or intonation, is used to signal the structure of spoken texts. It examines the role of intonation in clarifying the relationship between successive utterances, from close cohesive ties ('middles') to major breaks for a new topic ('ends' and 'beginnings'). The book is concerned chiefly with the intonational structuring of read or prepared monologue, but also devotes a chapter to current developments in the analysis of intonation in conversation. It describes not only how intonation is used to organise systematic turn-taking but also how it can signal greater or lesser degrees of co-operativeness. It addresses finally the complex issue of attitudinal intonation - the elusive 'tone of voice'. The first book on discourse intonation to deal with such a wide variety of naturally-occurring spoken data, Intonation in Text and Discourse will be of great interest to students, lecturers and researchers of intonation and all aspects of spoken discourse.

Author : A. Botinis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401143172

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ANTONIS BOTINIS 1. 1 Background This introduction provides essential information about the structure and the objects of study of this volume. Following the introduction, fourteen papers which represent current research on intonation are organised into five thematic sections: (I) Overview of Intonation, (II) Prominence and Focus, (III) Boundaries and Discourse, (IV) Intonation Modelling, and (V) Intonation Technology. Within the sections the papers are arranged thematically, although several papers which deal with various aspects of intonation and prosody are basically intersectional. As the title indicates, "Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology" is a contribution to the study of prosody, with major emphasis on intonation. Intonation and tonal themes are thus the central object of the volume, although temporal and dynamic aspects are also taken into consideration by a good number of papers. Although tonal and prosodic distinctions have been dealt with throughout man's literate history with reference to the study of language, for example by classical philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, it is in recent decades that we have witnessed the most fertile growth in intonation studies, as with experimental phonetics and speech technology in general. As Rossi (this volume) points out, intonation research really began to blossom in the sixties with a multi fold increase in prosodic studies, reflected in contributions to the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), and in the international literature.

Author : Dorothy M. Chun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588111695

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Discourse Intonation in L2 by Dorothy M. Chun Pdf

Intonation, rhythm, and general "melody" of language are among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce themselves. Yet, these same features are among the last to be mastered by adult L2 learners. Why is this, and how can L2 learners be helped? This book first presents the latest linguistic theories of intonation, in particular, how intonation functions in discourse not only to signal sentence types and attitudinal meanings but also to provide turn-taking and other conversational cues. The second part of the book examines the research in applied linguistics on the acquisition of L2 phonology and intonation. The third section offers practical applications of how to incorporate the teaching of intonation into L2 instruction, with a focus on using new speech technologies. The accompanying CD-ROM makes a unique addition in allowing for simultaneous audio playback and visual display of the pitch contours of utterances contained in the book. Users can start or stop the playback at any point in the utterance and can observe first-hand how such visual and audio representations could be useful for L2 learners.

Author : Dwight Bolinger,Dwight Le Merton Bolinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804715351

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Intonation and Its Uses by Dwight Bolinger,Dwight Le Merton Bolinger Pdf

This is the second and concluding volume of the author's magnum opus on intonation, the summation of over forty years of investigation and reflection. The first volume, Intonation and Its Parts: Melody in Spoken English, was published in 1986. Intonation, or speech melody, refers to the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice in speech; it has intimate ties to facial expression and bodily gesture, and conveys, underneath it all, emotions and attitudes. Most of the first volume was devoted to explaining the basic nature, variety, and untility of intonation, using, as in the present volume, hundreds of examples from everyday English speech, presented much in the manner of musical notation. The present volume looks at how intonation varies among speakers and societies in terms of age, sex and region; how it interacts with grammar; and how it has been invoked to explain certain questions of logic. The discussion of variation shows the degree to which intonation can be conventionalized and yet embody a universal core of feelings and attitudes, renewed with each generation. The remainder of the book demonstrates that no explanation of those apparently more arbitrary phenomena with which intonation interacts is adequate if it ignores that emotive undercurrent. In examining recent proposals for a defining relationship between intonation and grammar or logic, the author shows that such relationships are inferential and based on attitudinal meanings. For example, a given intonation does not mean 'factuality', but rather 'speaker confidence', from which factuality is inferred. In general, the author shows intonation operating independently in its own sphere, but as nevertheless indispensable to interpreting other more arbitrary parts of language.

Author : María Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000398861

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Intonation in L2 Discourse by María Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo Pdf

Grounded in a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) approach, this book applies a contrastive interlanguage corpus-based approach to investigate the nature and role of L2 intonation and its pragmatic function in spoken discourse. The volume offers a brief overview of SFL theories and frameworks, with a clear focus on Halliday’s model of phonology and the proposal of developing a grammar of speech. Integrating a SFL framework with a corpus linguistic-informed approach, the book uses this foundation as a jumping-off point from which to explore the prosodic complexities involved in English language teaching and learning for L2 learners, highlighting its various functions as illustrated in examples from the UAM English Learner Spoken Corpus. A final chapter synthesizes these findings toward critically reflecting on future directions for the study of L2 speech prosody. This book will be key reading for graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics and English language teaching.

Author : Dafydd Gibbon,Helmut Richter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110863239

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Intonation, Accent and Rhythm by Dafydd Gibbon,Helmut Richter Pdf

Author : Lucy Pickering
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472030187

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Discourse Intonation by Lucy Pickering Pdf

This textbook is an accessible introduction to discourse intonation for ESL/EFL instructors, whether practicing or in pre-service graduate programs. Because intonation is used to form impressions about a speaker’s attitude, it is crucial that instructors understand the details of the underlying linguistic system so that they can help students avoid the more common intonation-related pitfalls they experience when communicating in an academic setting. This textbook relies heavily on the Brazil model; chapters are organized around different parts of that model and how they can be most effectively taught. Readers will learn the conventions underlying, for example, how we group words in prosodic units, how we understand turn-taking cues in conversation, and how we assess whether someone is feeling angry or sad. This text features Check Your Learning sections, discussion questions, and hands-on activities at the end of every chapter. Chapters 3-9 also include a section on pedagogical implications. Some of the example sentences that illustrate intonation have accompanying short audio (MP3) files, which can be found online at www.press.umich.edu/elt/compsite/DI.

Author : Catherine Johns-Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429888335

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Intonation in Discourse by Catherine Johns-Lewis Pdf

First published in 1986. This book presents studies of intonation undertaken from within a number of different traditions: acoustic phonetics, phonology, psychology, social psychology, syntax, conversation analysis, developmental phonetics and sociolinguistics. The studies reported are empirically based, and give an indication of the many methodologies which have been developed in different disciplines for the investigation of the nature, structure and functions of intonation.

Author : David Brazil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015005357440

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Discourse Intonation by David Brazil Pdf

Author : Paul Tench
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474246613

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The Intonation Systems of English by Paul Tench Pdf

Tench provides an introduction to the current state of functional linguistics studies in the intonation of English. Intended not only for students of linguistics and English language, the book also contains information ideal for consideration by language teachers, speech therapists, drama students and other professions that rely heavily upon the spoken word.

Author : Gerard O'Grady
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441147172

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A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse by Gerard O'Grady Pdf

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Author : Catherine Johns-Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : UCAL:B4968432

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Intonation in Discourse by Catherine Johns-Lewis Pdf

Author : Winnie Cheng,Chris Greaves,Martin Warren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289872

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A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation by Winnie Cheng,Chris Greaves,Martin Warren Pdf

The book is the first to apply David Brazil’s Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting of four sub-corpora of equal size, namely academic, conversation, business and public. The participants are all adults and typically have either Cantonese or English as their first language. The four Discourse Intonation systems are described in terms of how the system works and how they are manifested in the corpus, both across the sub-corpora and also across speakers in the corpus. The book is accompanied with a CD containing the prosodically transcribed corpus together with iConc which is the software designed and written specifically to interrogate the HKCSE (prosodic). The issues raised and discussed are all of importance in Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Intonation, Pragmatics, and Intercultural Communication.

Author : Martin Hewings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : UOM:39015025156210

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Papers in Discourse Intonation by Martin Hewings Pdf

Author : Lucius Burgess
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656321842

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A demonstration of David Brazil’s theory of Discourse Intonation by Lucius Burgess Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Sound & Meaning: An Introduction to Suprasegmental Phonetics , language: English, abstract: The paper is concerned with the analysis of short linguistic units on the basis of David Brazil’s theory of discourse intonation. The first part of the paper gives a general outline of Brazil’s theory and his systematic approach to intonation analysis. The second part focusses on the analysis of suprasegmental phonetical structures of an actual text example. The paper is not aimed at presenting a new linguistic approach nor at critically analysing an existing theory but rather at using and exemplifying this theory. What is exemplified is David Brazil’s theory of discourse intonation as presented in his book Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English. Brazil’s Discourse Intonation Intonation constitutes an essential element of language in oral communication and is thus subject of linguistic research. While the assumption that intonation carries meaning goes widely unchallenged, linguists still argue as to the exact function of intonation. David Brazil, along with other linguists, propagated the idea of intonation as being discoursal in function. He thus distances himself from those who conceive intonation as having a grammatical, accentual or attitudinal function. [...]