The Roles of Intonation in English DiscourseThis work is an attempt to construct a comprehensive theory of the functions of intonation. Whereas many linguists have contributed details of the forms of intonation and have dealt with various aspects of particular functions of intonation, this study aims to bring all these together into a single, coherent description. Although the study is based on Halliday's model of intonation, it draws extensively on other linguists, particularly Pike, Jassem, O'Connor and Arnold, Crystal, Lehiste, Brazil, Brown, Cruttenden, Ladd and Liberman. The study is enhanced by detailed analysis of actual, recorded speech, and by a new departure in intonational analysis, namely the theory of the «stylistic potential» of intonation in different spoken genres. |
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Intonation and Syntax | 32 |
Intonation and Information Structure | 142 |
Intonation and Phonological Paragraphs | 246 |
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accented syllables accompanied analysis apposition attitude attitudinal boundary Brazil Brown clause structure communicative functions complement contained contour contrast Cruttenden Crystal & Davy Currie & Kenworthy dependent clause discourse distinction double tonic example expression fall-rise falling tone final focus function of intonation Gimson glissando grammatical Halliday Halliday's head high rise ideophonic implication incomplete indicate information structure intonational form Kingdon label Ladd language Leech & Svartvik lexical item lexical verb Liberman linguistic low rise major marked meaning minor information neutral tonality non-final normal O'Connor & Arnold paralinguistic paratone pause phonetic phonological hierarchy phonological paragraph piece of information Pike Pike's pitch level pitch movement pitch range pre-head pretonic prosodic Quirk reference rise-fall rising tone Schubiger Scottish English semantic sentence separate intonation unit single unit speaker speech statement status of information syntactic tone group tonic syllable unit of information unit of intonation utterance verb vocative words