English Intonation
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Author | : J. C. Wells |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2006-08-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521683807 |
Intonation - the rise and fall of pitch in our voices - plays a crucial role in how we express meaning. This accessible introduction shows students how to recognize and reproduce the intonation patterns of English, providing clear explanations of what they mean and how they are used. It looks in particular at three key functions of intonation - to express our attitude, to structure our messages to one another, and to focus attention on particular parts of what we are saying. An invaluable guide to how English intonation works, it is complete with extensive exercises, drills and practice material, encouraging students to produce and understand the intonation patterns for themselves. The accompanying CD contains a wealth of spoken examples, clearly demonstrating English intonation in context. Drawing on the perspectives of both language teaching and linguistics, this textbook will be welcomed by both learners of English, and beginning undergraduates in phonetics and linguistics.
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 | : Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday |
Publisher | : Equinox |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781904768159 |
Summary: "Intonation in the Grammar of English is written for scholars who are interested in language, but not necessarily linguists or phoneticians. The introduction covers speech sound, locating it in relation to other phenomena and disciplines, discusses its representation and interpretation, and introduces the systems and strata which frame its analysis in terms of systemic functional linguistics. The three kinds of meaning - textual meaning (relating language to its ever changing context), interpersonal meaning (allowing us to enact our social exchanges with others) and ideational meaning (construing the logic through which we represent the world we live in) - are each achieved in part through intonation. We make these meanings through choices: in terms of locating the main rise or fall in an intonation contour; in terms of fitting an intonation contour to part of a clause, to a whole clause, or to more than a clause; and in terms of the shape of the intonation contour. A CD-ROM integrated with the book provides examples as the systems of intonational choices are presented, and also gives examples of these systems being drawn on in different dialects of English, and in the many different exchange situations in which speakers find themselves in the course of a day."--Publisher description.
Author | : Barbara Bradford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1988-04-21 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521319140 |
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 | : Alan Cruttenden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1997-10-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521598255 |
This updated edition remains the basic reference book for all these concerned with speech in any way.
Author | : Christine Bartels |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1135685096 |
English sentence prosody provides cues to both focus structure and speaker attitude. Taking the phonological model of intonation developed by Pierrehumbert (1880 et seq.) as point of departure, this work illuminates the communicative function of English pitch contours by (1) giving a detailed survey of phrase-final contours found in statements and questions, and (2) investigating what attitudinal features determine choice of phrasal tones in these utterance types. This comprehensive study will be of interest to linguists in a number of fields, ranging from prosody to semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.
Author | : Dwight Bolinger |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780804712415 |
"It's not what she said, it's the way that she said it," is a complaint we have all heard (or made) some time or another. What does it refer to? It obviously relates to the various forms of wordless communication, but especially to the speaker's use of intonationthe rise and fall of the pitch of the voiceto convey sarcasm or resignation, anger or apprehension, or any of scores of other moods. In this summation of over forty years of investigation and reflection, the author analyzes the nature, variety and utility of intonation, using some 700 examples from everyday English speech. The work looks at both accent (pitch shift that points up individual words) and overall configurations (melodies that shape the meaning of whole sentences). It shows that most easily understood utterances employ one or another of a surprisingly small stock of basic melodies, and it shows both intonation and visible gesture to be parts of a larger complex that conveys grammatical as well as emotional information. Though it is one of the major divisions of the science of linguistics, intonation is of great interest to others outside of linguisticsto actors and lawyers who must use the voice to assert, to downplay, or to emote; to English teachers as an essential ingredient of idiomatic speech; to musicians for its many common elements in music theory; and to psychologists and anthropologists as a gauge of emotional tension and a clue to behavior.
Author | : Paul Tench |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2015-12-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1474246613 |
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 | : J. Roelof de Pijper |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2019-12-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110883511 |
No detailed description available for "Modelling British English Intonation".
Author | : Gordon Frederick Arnold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1963 |
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