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Item Details
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A GRAMMAR OF SPOKEN ENGLISH DISCOURSE
THE INTONATION OF INCREMENTS |
| By: |
Gerard O'Grady |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£33.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1441148485 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781441148483 |
| Publisher: |
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION |
| Pub. date: |
31 May, 2012 |
| Series: |
Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics |
| Pages: |
268 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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