Systemic Phonology
Recent Studies in English
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
460 pages
978-1-84553-946-7 (ISBN)
Description
This long-awaited volume presents thirteen original contributions by some of the leading scholars in Systemic Phonology. The chapters present both theoretical and applied studies with analyses of wide-ranging texts including news readings, children's stories, literary classics, classroom discourse, and sung texts. The volume also includes some theoretical contributions, such as an explication of the generative model of intonation and punctuation of the Cardiff School of SFL. The last chapter in the volume is an interactive chapter where readers can listen to, read, and obtain a first-hand guided experience of analyzing texts using the systemic model of intonation. Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English is of value to scholars and students in the fields of phonology, phonetics, music studies, semiotics, and media studies, and is of particular interest to those working within the Systemic Functional model of language. This volume will also be of interest to any researchers analysing meaning in relation to sound and music.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-946-7 (9781845539467)
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Wendy L. Bowcher is a professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Bradley A. Smith is currently a research assistant at the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne.
Bradley A. Smith is currently a research assistant at the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne.
Content
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Wendy L. Bowcher and Bradley A. Smith PART A: Intonation: Construing the Textual Metafunction 1. An Investigation of how Intonation Helps Signal Information Structure Gerard O'Grady (Cardiff University) 2. Creating a Parallel Universe: Mode and the Textual Metafunction in the Study of One News Story Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University) 3. Intonation: Signal of Information Peaks Shan Zhu (Sun Yat-sen University) 4. A Multi-stratal Approach to a Paragraph-like Organisation in Lectures Kazuyoshi Iwamoto (Kyorin University) PART B: The Interface between Written and Spoken Language 5. The Black Hole in Graphology Martin Davies (University of Stirling, retired) 6. The Spoken Interpretation of Written Text Michael Cummings (York University, Canada) 7. Meaningful Reading: Intonation Choices by Native and non-Native English Speakers Reading The Giving Tree Wendy L. Bowcher and Zhu Shan PART C: The Interface between Music and Language 8. A Note for - ed: Comments on the Treatment of - ed in Handel's Messiah David Banks (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale) 9. A Comparative Analysis of the Rap and Sung Voice: Perspectives from Systemic Phonology, Social Semiotics, and Music Studies David Caldwell (National Institute of Education, Singapore) PART D: Modelling Intonation 10. Towards a Systemic Presentation of the Word Phonology of English Paul Tench (Cardiff University) 11. Digital Phonology: Systemic Perspectives Bradley A. Smith, Stefano Fasciani, and Kay O'Halloran (all at The National University of Singapore) 12. The Meanings and Form of Intonation and Punctuation in English: The Concepts Required for an Explicit Model Robin Fawcett (Cardiff University) PART E: Interacting with Systemic Phonology 13. Locating the Limerick Wall Street Irene and the Sonnet On His Blindness in the Semiotic Space between the Body as Signal Generator/Receiver and the Body as Social Interactant William S. Greaves (York University, Canada) Index