The Communicative Value of Intonation in English, originally published in 1985 by the English Language Research unit in Birmingham and revised in 1992, sets out David Brazil's description of the system of intonation in English. This model of English intonation takes a discourse-based approach and attempts to assign 'meaning' or a communicative value to the different aspects that make up the system of intonation. Chapters within the book descibe parts of the intonation system which vary according to speaker choice: the tone unit as a whole, prominence, key, pitch and orientation. Three chapters are devoted to tones and their communicative value. This is an important and controversial work, which has influenced scholars in the field and ELT materials writers alike. A cassette containing all the examples of intonation features in the book is available.
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The revised edition of David Brazil's seminal work The Communicative Value of Intonation in English.
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This book presents intonation as a system of conveying meaning. The system is based on a system that depends on the interaction between tone and pitch. There are quite a few interesting ideas presented in this book, but the writing style will make you pay dearly for them. The author uses quite a lot of jargon and doesn't feel any reluctance to make up his own. This makes this book a difficult read. If you're dong research on intonation, though, you might find it worth the effort to wade through it. Just don't buy this for pleasure reading.
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- A Grammar of Speech (Describing English Language) by David Brazil in Front Matter
- English Tone of Voice: Essays in Intonation, Prosody and Paralanguage by David Crystal in Back Matter
- Questions of Intonation by Gillian Brown in Back Matter
- Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by David Crystal in Back Matter
- Aspects of English Sentence Stress by Susan F. Schmerling in Back Matter
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- Advances in Written Text Analysis by Malcolm Coulthard on page 265, and Back Matter
- Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure: The Phonology of Suprasegmentals (Oxford Linguistics) by Anthony Fox in Back Matter
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) by Scott Thornbury in Back Matter
- Techniques of Description: Spoken and Written Discourse by Gwyneth Fox on page 169
- A Survey of Modern English by Stephan Gramley on page 121
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