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Grammar of Spoken English Discourse The Intonation of Increments

O'Grady, Gerard
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781441148483
Publisert
2012-08-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Continuum Publishing Corporation
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
O'Grady, Gerard

Biographical note

Dr Gerard O'Grady is a Lecturer in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK

Grammar of Spoken English Discourse The Intonation of Increments

O'Grady, Gerard
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
O'Grady, Gerard
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
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"Taking David Brazil's ground-breaking work on the grammar of speech as a starting point, O'Grady makes an important contribution to the analysis of unfolding real-time language. He assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Brazil's grammar and goes on to offer a developed version, using evidence from a corpus of read aloud speech. Perhaps his main contribution is in placing intonation more centrally in the description. His work will be of relevance to all whose interests are in understanding speech as process rather than product and the role of intonation in discourse." (Martin Hewings, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK)"

David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and teststhedescription of usedlanguageagainst a spoken corpus. He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics study, notably concerning phrases and lexical items larger than single orthographic words and ellipsis. He demonstrates theadded communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation ('Key' and 'Termination') bring to the grammar. O'Grady reviews the literature andcovers the theorybefore moving on to a practical, analytic section. His final chapter reviews the arguments, maps the road ahead and lays out the practical applications of the grammar. The book will be of great interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.
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David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at "A Grammar Of Speech" (1995) due to his untimely death. This title develops David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse, testing theory against a corpus.
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1. Introduction: the organisation of spoken discourse; 2. A review of A Grammar of Speech; 3. The psychological foundations of the grammar; 4. A linear grammar of speech; 5. The corpus and its coding; 6. Increments and tone; 7. Key and termination within and between increments; 8. Reviewing, looking forward and practical applications; Bibliography; Index.
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Develops David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse, testing theory against a corpus.
Most grammars of English rely heavily on the written language, excluding much normal spoken discourse.
Now Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; for up-to-date details of titles published after September 2012 click here. Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics publishes work at the forefront of present-day developments in the field. The series is open to studies from all branches of theoretical linguistics and to the full range of theoretical frameworks. Titles in the series present original research that makes a new and significant contribution and are aimed primarily at scholars in the field, but are clear and accessible, making them useful also to students, to new researchers and to scholars in related disciplines.
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"Taking David Brazil's ground-breaking work on the grammar of speech as a starting point, O'Grady makes an important contribution to the analysis of unfolding real-time language. He assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Brazil's grammar and goes on to offer a developed version, using evidence from a corpus of read aloud speech. Perhaps his main contribution is in placing intonation more centrally in the description. His work will be of relevance to all whose interests are in understanding speech as process rather than product and the role of intonation in discourse." (Martin Hewings, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK)"

David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and teststhedescription of usedlanguageagainst a spoken corpus. He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics study, notably concerning phrases and lexical items larger than single orthographic words and ellipsis. He demonstrates theadded communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation ('Key' and 'Termination') bring to the grammar. O'Grady reviews the literature andcovers the theorybefore moving on to a practical, analytic section. His final chapter reviews the arguments, maps the road ahead and lays out the practical applications of the grammar. The book will be of great interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.
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David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at "A Grammar Of Speech" (1995) due to his untimely death. This title develops David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse, testing theory against a corpus.
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1. Introduction: the organisation of spoken discourse; 2. A review of A Grammar of Speech; 3. The psychological foundations of the grammar; 4. A linear grammar of speech; 5. The corpus and its coding; 6. Increments and tone; 7. Key and termination within and between increments; 8. Reviewing, looking forward and practical applications; Bibliography; Index.
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Develops David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse, testing theory against a corpus.
Most grammars of English rely heavily on the written language, excluding much normal spoken discourse.
Now Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; for up-to-date details of titles published after September 2012 click here. Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics publishes work at the forefront of present-day developments in the field. The series is open to studies from all branches of theoretical linguistics and to the full range of theoretical frameworks. Titles in the series present original research that makes a new and significant contribution and are aimed primarily at scholars in the field, but are clear and accessible, making them useful also to students, to new researchers and to scholars in related disciplines.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781441148483
Publisert
2012-08-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
O'Grady, Gerard

Biographical note

Dr Gerard O'Grady is a Lecturer in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK

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