A Demonstration Of David Brazils Theory Of Discourse Intonation
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| Author | : Lucius Burgess |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 29 |
| Release | : 2012-11-27 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 3656321841 |
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. [...]
| Author | : Lucy Pickering |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2018-08-16 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0472030183 |
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 | : David Brazil |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1997-05-29 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0521585872 |
The revised edition of David Brazil's seminal work The Communicative Value of Intonation in English.
| Author | : Gerard O'Grady |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2010-10-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1441174443 |
David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and tests the description of used language against a spoken corpus. He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics study, notably concerning phrases and lexical items larger than single orthographic words and ellipsis. He demonstrates the added communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation ('Key' and 'Termination') bring to the grammar. O'Grady reviews the literature and covers the theory before moving on to a practical, analytic section. His final chapter reviews the arguments, maps the road ahead and lays out the practical applications of the grammar. The book will be of great interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.
| Author | : David Brazil |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Winnie Cheng |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027223068 |
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 | : Barbara Bradford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 1988-04-21 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780521319157 |
Comprehensive intonation course with 8 units designed to assist English students in improving their listening and speaking skills. With audio CD, answers, audioscripts, glossary, and explanatory notes. Suitable for self-study, building vocabulary, and developing listening and speaking skills.
| Author | : Beatrice Szczepek Reed |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2013-10-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027271313 |
In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and interaction. Amongst the issues being explored are the role and relevance of traditionally accepted linguistic units for the analysis of naturally occurring talk, and the identification of new units of conduct in interaction. While some chapters make suggestions on how existing linguistic units can be adapted to suit the study of conversation, others present radically new perspectives on how language in interaction should be described, conceptualised and researched. The chapters present empirical investigations into different languages (Danish, English, Japanese, Mandarin, Swedish) in a variety of settings (private and institutional), considering both linguistic and embodied resources for talk. In addressing the fundamental question of units, the volume pushes at the boundaries of current debates and contributes original new insight into the nature of language in interaction.
| Author | : Ross Steele |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 688 |
| Release | : 1987-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902728623X |
This second volume in honour of Michael Halliday contains three sections: The Design of Language, Text and Discourse and Exploring Language as Social Semiotic, and concludes with a recent interview conducted by Paul Thibault in which Halliday provides further insights in his theory of language. The essential design features of language are semantic, lexico-grammatical and phonological. Text for Halliday is a semantic unit expressed by the lexico-grammatical and phonological patterns in language. The papers in the first section study aspects of these three strata of language and the relation between them. The second section deals with units higher than the clause complex and the papers there attempt to integrate the analysis of the lexico-grammatical and phonological systems into higher level discourse units. The papers in the third section develop the notion of language as social semiotic which is central to Haliday’s model of language.
| Author | : Dorothy M. Chun |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2002-04-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027297525 |
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.
