Intonation in the Grammar of English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intonation in the Grammar of English write by Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday. This book was released on 2008. Intonation in the Grammar of English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Intonation and grammar in British English
Intonation and grammar in British English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intonation and grammar in British English write by M. A. K. Halliday. This book was released on 2015-06-03. Intonation and grammar in British English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
English Intonation PB and Audio CD
English Intonation PB and Audio CD - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Intonation PB and Audio CD write by J. C. Wells. This book was released on 2006-08-31. English Intonation PB and Audio CD available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse
A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse write by Gerard O'Grady. This book was released on 2010-10-07. A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Intonation and Its Parts
Intonation and Its Parts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intonation and Its Parts write by Dwight Bolinger. This book was released on 1986. Intonation and Its Parts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
