The Communicative Value of Intonation in English
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...
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The revised edition of David Brazil's seminal work The Communicative Value of Intonation in English.
Contents; Preface; Chapter 1; A preliminary sketch of the tone unit; Chapter 2; Prominence; Chapter 3; Key and Termination; Chapter 4; Toneproclaiming and referring; Chapter 5; Tonedominance and control; Chapter 6; Tonequestions 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
