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Intonation in Text and Discourse - Beginnings, middles and ends (Hardcover)
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Intonation in Text and Discourse - Beginnings, middles and ends (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Language and Linguistics
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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.
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