Intonation in Text and Discourse
Beginnings, Middles and Ends
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-0-582-23474-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
275 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-23474-1 (9780582234741)
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Person
Anne Wichmann is a Reader in Speech and Language at the University of Central Lancashire.
Content
Author's acknowledgementsPublisher's acknowledgementsIntroductionCHAPTER ONE:CHAPTER TWO:Analysing spoken discourse1.1 A historical perspective1.2 Prosodic resources1.2.1 Intonation1.2.2 Models of intonation1.2.2.1 Pitch1.2.2.2 Phrasing 121.2.2.3 Phonetic realisation ofphonological categories 121.2.3 Instrumental and auditory analysis 121.3 Modelling spoken discourse 131.3.1 Models of text and discourse structure 151.3.1.1 Propositional models 151.3.1.2 Cognitive models 161.3.1.3 Formal models 171.3.2 Modelling conversational interaction 181.4 Speaking styles 191.4.1 Reading 201.4.2 Unscripted speech 211.4.3 Other speaking styles 211.4.4 Conclusion 221.5 Summary 22Beginnings2.1 Paragraph intonation in oral reading:4 case studies2425v CONTENTS2.1.1 Case 1: A news summary 252.1.2 Case 2: A news report 272.1.3 Case 3: A short story 282.1.3.1 Topics or paragraphs? 302.1.3.2 Spoken vs. written paragraphs 302.1.4 Case 4: Children's oral reading 332.2 Titles, headlines and openers: the 'citationcontour' as a topic marker 352.2.1 Topic marking in read speech 362.2.2 Topic marking in spontaneous speech 382.3 Phonetic issues surrounding initiality 412.3.1 How high is high? 412.3.1.1 Relative pitch height 412.3.1.2 Individual pitch preferences 422.3.2 The role of timing 432.3.2.1 Segmental and prosodicfactors affecting peak timing 442.3.2.2 The effect of discourse onpeak timing 442.3.2.3 Theoretical implications:association vs. alignment 452.4 Summary 46CHAPTER THREE: Ends 493.1 Coming to the end: evidence from the SEC 503.1.1 Falling tones 503.1.2 Early closure 503.1.2.1 Utterance-final rises 503.1.2.2 Utterance-internal falls 513.2 What kind of falling tones are there? 533.2.1 High and low falls 533.2.2 Tails and endpoi