A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation

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The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)

Winnie Cheng Chris Greaves Martin Warren(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 3. Dezember 2008

XI, 325 Seiten

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A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication
Table of contents
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Background
The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE)
Collection of data for HKCSE
Composition of HKCSE (prosodic)
Speaker characteristics
Structure of the book
Discourse intonation systems
Introduction
Discourse intonation framework
Four systems of speaker intonational choices
Tone unit
Prominence, key and termination
Tone
Tone choice: proclaiming and referring
Tone choice: dominance and control
Orientation
Tone: questions and social elicitation
Declarative-mood questions
Yes-no questions
Information questions
Conclusion
Transcribing the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE)
Introduction
Transcribing the HKCSE (prosodic)
Problems encountered in transcribing HKCSE (prosodic)
Conclusion
The iConc concordancing program
Introduction
The Corpus Menu
The intonation menu: Tone units
The intonation menu: Tones
The intonation menu: Key (ONLY)
The intonation menu: Termination (ONLY)
The intonation menu: Key + Termination
The intonation menu: Prominence
The concordance menu: Search
The concordance menu: Discourse Intonation System/Word Search
The Statistics Menu
The Statistics Menu: Unique Words
The Statistics Menu: Compare Unique Words Lists
Conclusion
Tone Units
Introduction
Distribution of size of tone units
Single word tone units
Speaker choices and tone unit boundaries
Tone unit boundaries and disambiguation
Alternative 'or'
Approximative versus specific use of numerals
Tone unit boundaries and Linear Unit grammar
Tone unit boundaries, Linear Unit Grammar and back-channels
Tone unit boundaries and extended collocations
Conclusions
Prominence
Introduction
Distribution of prominences
Patterns in the selection of prominence
Prominence: the existential paradigm
Opposites
"Inevitability"
Speakers' differing perspectives
Double-prominence on one word
Convergence
Vague use of numbers
Pre-modification of vague determiners
Lexical cohesion
Word associations
Pronoun prominence
Word class and frequency
Conclusions
Tones
Introduction
Distribution of tones across speakers and sub-corpora
Patterns of tone use
Proclaiming and referring tones
Level tone
Functions of the level tone
Context 1
Context 2
Frequencies of use of the level tone for Contexts 1 and 2
Disambiguation and tones
Question intonation
Declarative-mood questions
Question types and tone choice
Speaker dominance and control
Functions of the rise and rise-fall tones
Continuative use of the rise tone
Use of the rise tone to exert pressure on hearer to speak
Use of the rise tone to openly remind the hearer(s) of common ground
Change in the speaker's world view
Distribution of the rise and the rise-fall tones across discourse types
Conclusions
Key and termination
Introduction
Distribution of key and termination across the HKCSE (prosodic)
Patterns of usage
Contrastive use
Disagreements
Particularising use of high key
Topic development
Endings
Equative
Pitch concord and discord
Pitch discord
Frequency distribution of pitch concord and discord
Most frequent word classes in single word tone units
Conclusions
Conclusions and implications
Concluding comments
Implications for future research
Implications for learning and teaching
References
appendix 1
HKCSE-Related scholarly output to date
appendix 2
Quantitative data
Distribution of words
appendix 3
Quantitative data
Tone units
appendix 4
Quantitative data
Prominence
appendix 5
Quantitative data
Tones
appendix 6
Quantitative data
Key and termination
Author index
Subject index
The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL)

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