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Intonation in Text and Discourse Anne Wichmann (University of Cental Lancashire, Preston, UK)

Intonation in Text and Discourse By Anne Wichmann (University of Cental Lancashire, Preston, UK)

Intonation in Text and Discourse by Anne Wichmann (University of Cental Lancashire, Preston, UK)


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Based on the analysis of a computer corpus of speech data, this study looks at the interaction between intonation and discourse analysis. It is suitable for those work mainly on spoken language but would like to take more account of intonation in their analyses.

Intonation in Text and Discourse Summary

Intonation in Text and Discourse: Beginnings, Middles and Ends by Anne Wichmann (University of Cental Lancashire, Preston, UK)

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.

About Anne Wichmann (University of Cental Lancashire, Preston, UK)

Anne Wichmann is a Reader in Speech and Language at the University of Central Lancashire.

Table of Contents

Analysing spoken discourse; beginnings; ends; cohesion; paragraph intonation - local and global pitch range in discourse; intonation in conversation - structure and meaning.

Additional information

NLS9780582234741
9780582234741
0582234743
Intonation in Text and Discourse: Beginnings, Middles and Ends by Anne Wichmann (University of Cental Lancashire, Preston, UK)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2000-03-01
172
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