Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure
|
Not currently available
Intonation and Meaning (Paperback)
Loot Price: R947
Discovery Miles 9 470
|
|
Intonation and Meaning (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay
between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and
interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis.
Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances
by changing the location of stress or of pauses, and by choosing
the melody of their sentences. Although these factors often do not
change the literal meaning of what is said, linguists have in
recent years found tools and models to describe these more elusive
aspects of linguistic meaning. This volume provides a guide to what
we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and
melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and
emphasis. Daniel Buring presents the main phenomena involved, and
introduces the details of current formal analyses of prosodic
structure, relevant aspects of discourse structure, intonational
meaning, and, most importantly, the relations between them. He
explains and compares the most influential theories in these areas,
and outlines the questions that remain open for future research.
This wide-ranging book involves aspects of phonetics, phonology,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and will be of interest to
researchers and students in all of these fields, from advanced
undergraduate level upwards.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.