A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation
The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2008
XI, 325 pages
978-90-272-8987-2 (ISBN)
Description
The book is the first to apply David Brazil's Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting of four sub-corpora of equal size, namely academic, conversation, business and public. The participants are all adults and typically have either Cantonese or English as their first language. The four Discourse Intonation systems are described in terms of how the system works and how they are manifested in the corpus, both across the sub-corpora and also across speakers in the corpus. The book is accompanied with a CD containing the prosodically transcribed corpus together with iConc which is the software designed and written specifically to interrogate the HKCSE (prosodic). The issues raised and discussed are all of importance in Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Intonation, Pragmatics, and Intercultural Communication.
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Content
- 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)
