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Intonation and Its Parts - Melody in Spoken English (Hardcover)
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Intonation and Its Parts - Melody in Spoken English (Hardcover)
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"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
intonation-the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice-to 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 linguistics-to 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.
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