The Audiobook (CD) of the Intonation in Context Audio CD: Intonation Practice for Upper-Intermediate and Advanced Learners of English by Barbara Bradford.

Author: Anne Wichmann ISBN: 335 Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines File Size: 56. 39 MB Format: PDF, ePub, Docs Download: 838 Read: 270 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? Vista All In One Iso Download. 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. Heavy Duty Drivers Jobs.

Author: Dorothy M. Chun ISBN: Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines File Size: 68.

93 MB Format: PDF, ePub, Docs Download: 571 Read: 316 Intonation, rhythm, and general 'melody' of language are among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce themselves. Yet, these same features are among the last to be mastered by adult L2 learners. Why is this, and how can L2 learners be helped? This book first presents the latest linguistic theories of intonation, in particular, how intonation functions in discourse not only to signal sentence types and attitudinal meanings but also to provide turn-taking and other conversational cues.