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The revised edition of David Brazil's seminal work The Communicative Value of Intonation in English.
Synopsis
This revised edition of David Brazil's seminal work, The Communicative Value of Intonation in English sets out his description of the system of intonation in English. The model takes a discourse-based framework and attempts to assign a communicative value to the different aspects that make up the intonation system in English.
Table of Contents
Contents; Preface; Chapter 1; A preliminary sketch of the tone unit; Chapter 2; Prominence; Chapter 3; Key and Termination; Chapter 4; Tone proclaiming and referring; Chapter 5; Tone dominance and control; Chapter 6; Tone questions and social elicitation; Chapter 7; The Pitch Sequence; Chapter 8; Orientation; Chapter 9; Retrospect; Appendix A; some further examples to illustrate the use of the various speaker options; Appendix B; Fundamental frequency traces of some representative tone units; List of technical terms