Intonation and Its Uses

Melody in Grammar and Discourse

Dwight Bolinger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

484 Seiten

1989 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-1535-5 (ISBN)

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This volume looks at how intonation varies among speakers and societies in terms of age, sex and region, how it interacts with grammar and how it has been invoked to explain certain questions of logic.

Introduction Part I. Variation: 1. Age and sex 2. Dialect and language Part II. Intonation and Grammar: Clauses and Above: 3. Crosscurrents 4. Demarcation 5. Questions 6. Nonquestions 7. Dependent clauses and other dependencies Part III. Intonation and Grammar: Below the Clause: 8. Accent and morphology 9. Accent in higher units 10. Exclamations and interjections 11. 'Well' Part IV. Intonation and Logic: 12. Is there an intonation of 'contrast'? 13. Accent and entailment 14. accent and denial 15. An intonation of factuality? 16. A practical case: broadcast prosody Appendixes Reference matter.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.1989
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	848 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-8047-1535-1 / 0804715351
ISBN-13	978-0-8047-1535-5 / 9780804715355
Zustand	Neuware