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Download or read book Functional Sentence Perspective, Intonation, and the Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Firbas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521373085
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication written by Jan Firbas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. Jan Firbas discusses the distribution of the degrees of communicative dynamism over sentence elements, which determines the orientation or perspective of the sentence. He examines also the relation of theme and rheme to, and implementation by, syntactic components. Special attention is paid to the relation between FSP and word order. The second part of the book deals with spoken communication and considers the place of intonation in the interplay of FSP factors, establishing the concept of prosodic prominence. It tackles the relationship between the distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism as determined by the interplay of the non-prosodic FSP factors and the distribution of degrees of prosodic prominence as brought about by intonation.
Author : Dwight Bolinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804715355
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Intonation and Its Uses written by Dwight Bolinger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second and concluding volume of the author's magnum opus on intonation, the summation of over forty years of investigation and reflection. The first volume, Intonation and Its Parts: Melody in Spoken English, was published in 1986. Intonation, or speech melody, refers to the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice in speech; it has intimate ties to facial expression and bodily gesture, and conveys, underneath it all, emotions and attitudes. Most of the first volume was devoted to explaining the basic nature, variety, and untility of intonation, using, as in the present volume, hundreds of examples from everyday English speech, presented much in the manner of musical notation. The present volume looks at how intonation varies among speakers and societies in terms of age, sex and region; how it interacts with grammar; and how it has been invoked to explain certain questions of logic. The discussion of variation shows the degree to which intonation can be conventionalized and yet embody a universal core of feelings and attitudes, renewed with each generation. The remainder of the book demonstrates that no explanation of those apparently more arbitrary phenomena with which intonation interacts is adequate if it ignores that emotive undercurrent. In examining recent proposals for a defining relationship between intonation and grammar or logic, the author shows that such relationships are inferential and based on attitudinal meanings. For example, a given intonation does not mean 'factuality', but rather 'speaker confidence', from which factuality is inferred. In general, the author shows intonation operating independently in its own sphere, but as nevertheless indispensable to interpreting other more arbitrary parts of language.
Author : John H. Connolly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110875837
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Constituent Order in Functional Grammar written by John H. Connolly and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the present work is to explore the description of Constituent Ordering (CO) within the Functional Grammar (FG) framework. The aim is to show how it is possible to achieve a comprehensive description of CO and of CO change which takes properly into account not only the formal or structural properties of ordering but also the part which CO plays in linguistic communication.
Author : Clifford W. Dunbar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Functional Sentence Perspective in the Analysis of Scientific Texts Produced by Published Authors, Undergradutate Native Speakers of English, and Undergraduate Nonnative Speakers of Asian Origin written by Clifford W. Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brigitte K. Halford
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823345770
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Talk Units written by Brigitte K. Halford and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sv?tla ?mejrková
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027215510
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Syntax of Sentence and Text written by Sv?tla ?mejrková and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of papers inspired by the work of Frantisek Danes and is published in honour of his 75th birthday. Danes' international contribution to the development of Prague School functionalism, the theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics is reflected in the 27 papers collected in four thematic sections of this volume.
Author : Timothy Shopen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812212501
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Languages and Their Speakers written by Timothy Shopen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1987-05-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages and Their Speakers provides an introduction both to languages themselves and to their social functions. Written especially for nonlinguistics majors, the book considers how speakers know their languages—know them as grammatical systems and know them as part of a cultural matrix.
Author : Martin Adam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788021042698
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (426 download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Functional Sentence Perspective written by Martin Adam and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip L. Tite
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004228055
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans written by Philip L. Tite and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging nearly two centuries of scholarship, this book offers a close analysis of Laodiceans. Philip Tite offers a detailed study of this Latin letter by exploring the epistolary conventions utilized by the letter writer.
Author : René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027215243
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Functionalism in Linguistics written by René Dirven and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical, descriptive and applied issues from a functional point of view, testifying of the very wide-spread and in-depth impact of functionalist thought on the present-day linguistic scene.
Author : Paul Tench
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Roles of Intonation in English Discourse written by Paul Tench and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1990 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an attempt to construct a comprehensive theory of the functions of intonation. Whereas many linguists have contributed details of the forms of intonation and have dealt with various aspects of particular functions of intonation, this study aims to bring all these together into a single, coherent description. Although the study is based on Halliday's model of intonation, it draws extensively on other linguists, particularly Pike, Jassem, O'Connor and Arnold, Crystal, Lehiste, Brazil, Brown, Cruttenden, Ladd and Liberman. The study is enhanced by detailed analysis of actual, recorded speech, and by a new departure in intonational analysis, namely the theory of the «stylistic potential» of intonation in different spoken genres.
Author : John M. Levis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416624
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Intelligibility, Oral Communication, and the Teaching of Pronunciation written by John M. Levis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Author : Stefan Baumann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110921200
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Intonation of Givenness written by Stefan Baumann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses students and researchers of both phonetics and phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to investigate the marking of aspects of information structure, concentrating on the Given-New dimension. It begins with an overview of the state of the art in the areas of intonation and information structure, and, since the term 'Givenness' has been used in the literature in diverging ways, provides a model of 'Givenness proper', focussing on the cognitive states of discourse referents, and how these states are expressed through the choice of words and their prosody. The empirical evidence provided here is based on German. It comprises the analysis of a read corpus and two perception experiments which show that the dichotomy of 'accented' versus 'uncaccented' corresponding to 'New' versus 'Given' information is inadequate. In fact, there is evidence that a range of pitch accent types (including deaccentuation) can be mapped onto the gradient scale of Givenness degrees, with the pitch height on the accented syllable being the determining factor.
Author : James Monaghan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311134598X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Neo-Firthian Tradition and Its Contribution to General Linguistics written by James Monaghan and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Author : Juhani Toivanen
Publisher : Forum Linguisticum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Intonation written by Juhani Toivanen and published by Forum Linguisticum. This book was released on 2001 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a thorough investigation and comparison of intonational features of two varieties of English: the English spoken by speakers of educated Southern British English and the English spoken by native speakers of Finnish. The investigation is based on a large database and an exceptionally thorough acoustic analysis, and the discussion presents new perspectives on interlanguage intonation. The work also contains a very detailed review of contemporary theories and models of intonation. This book is intended for phoneticians and linguists, as well as teachers and students of English as a foreign language.
Author : Lucius Burgess
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656321841
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (563 download)
Download or read book A demonstration of David Brazil’s theory of Discourse Intonation written by Lucius Burgess and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Sound & Meaning: An Introduction to Suprasegmental Phonetics , language: English, abstract: The paper is concerned with the analysis of short linguistic units on the basis of David Brazil’s theory of discourse intonation. The first part of the paper gives a general outline of Brazil’s theory and his systematic approach to intonation analysis. The second part focusses on the analysis of suprasegmental phonetical structures of an actual text example. The paper is not aimed at presenting a new linguistic approach nor at critically analysing an existing theory but rather at using and exemplifying this theory. What is exemplified is David Brazil’s theory of discourse intonation as presented in his book Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English. Brazil’s Discourse Intonation Intonation constitutes an essential element of language in oral communication and is thus subject of linguistic research. While the assumption that intonation carries meaning goes widely unchallenged, linguists still argue as to the exact function of intonation. David Brazil, along with other linguists, propagated the idea of intonation as being discoursal in function. He thus distances himself from those who conceive intonation as having a grammatical, accentual or attitudinal function. [...]
