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Intonation in the Grammar of English (Hardcover)
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Intonation in the Grammar of English (Hardcover)
Series: Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics
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Intonation in the Grammar of English is written for scholars
interested in language but not necessarily linguists or
phoneticians. An introduction covers speech sound, locating it in
relation to other phenomena and disciplines, discussing its
representation and interpretation, and introducing 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.
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