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Functional Sentence Perspective, Intonation, and the Speaker
Author: Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication
Author: Jan FirbasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521373085
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. Jan Firbas discusses the distribution of the degrees of communicative dynamism over sentence elements, which determines the orientation or perspective of the sentence. He examines also the relation of theme and rheme to, and implementation by, syntactic components. Special attention is paid to the relation between FSP and word order. The second part of the book deals with spoken communication and considers the place of intonation in the interplay of FSP factors, establishing the concept of prosodic prominence. It tackles the relationship between the distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism as determined by the interplay of the non-prosodic FSP factors and the distribution of degrees of prosodic prominence as brought about by intonation.
Intonation and Its Uses
Author: Dwight BolingerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804715355
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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This is the second and concluding volume of the author's magnum opus on intonation, the summation of over forty years of investigation and reflection. The first volume, Intonation and Its Parts: Melody in Spoken English, was published in 1986. Intonation, or speech melody, refers to the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice in speech; it has intimate ties to facial expression and bodily gesture, and conveys, underneath it all, emotions and attitudes. Most of the first volume was devoted to explaining the basic nature, variety, and untility of intonation, using, as in the present volume, hundreds of examples from everyday English speech, presented much in the manner of musical notation. The present 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. The discussion of variation shows the degree to which intonation can be conventionalized and yet embody a universal core of feelings and attitudes, renewed with each generation. The remainder of the book demonstrates that no explanation of those apparently more arbitrary phenomena with which intonation interacts is adequate if it ignores that emotive undercurrent. In examining recent proposals for a defining relationship between intonation and grammar or logic, the author shows that such relationships are inferential and based on attitudinal meanings. For example, a given intonation does not mean 'factuality', but rather 'speaker confidence', from which factuality is inferred. In general, the author shows intonation operating independently in its own sphere, but as nevertheless indispensable to interpreting other more arbitrary parts of language.
Constituent Order in Functional Grammar
Author: John H. ConnollyPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110875837
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The purpose of the present work is to explore the description of Constituent Ordering (CO) within the Functional Grammar (FG) framework. The aim is to show how it is possible to achieve a comprehensive description of CO and of CO change which takes properly into account not only the formal or structural properties of ordering but also the part which CO plays in linguistic communication.
Functional Sentence Perspective in the Analysis of Scientific Texts Produced by Published Authors, Undergradutate Native Speakers of English, and Undergraduate Nonnative Speakers of Asian Origin
Author: Clifford W. DunbarPublisher:
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Category : Functionalism (Linguistics)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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The Intonation of Givenness
Author: Stefan BaumannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110921200
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This book addresses students and researchers of both phonetics and phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to investigate the marking of aspects of information structure, concentrating on the Given-New dimension. It begins with an overview of the state of the art in the areas of intonation and information structure, and, since the term 'Givenness' has been used in the literature in diverging ways, provides a model of 'Givenness proper', focussing on the cognitive states of discourse referents, and how these states are expressed through the choice of words and their prosody. The empirical evidence provided here is based on German. It comprises the analysis of a read corpus and two perception experiments which show that the dichotomy of 'accented' versus 'uncaccented' corresponding to 'New' versus 'Given' information is inadequate. In fact, there is evidence that a range of pitch accent types (including deaccentuation) can be mapped onto the gradient scale of Givenness degrees, with the pitch height on the accented syllable being the determining factor.
Talk Units
Author: Brigitte K. HalfordPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823345770
Category : Canadianisms
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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A Handbook of Functional Sentence Perspective
Author: Martin AdamPublisher:
ISBN: 9788021042698
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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Languages and Their Speakers
Author: Timothy ShopenPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812212501
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Languages and Their Speakers provides an introduction both to languages themselves and to their social functions. Written especially for nonlinguistics majors, the book considers how speakers know their languages—know them as grammatical systems and know them as part of a cultural matrix.
Functionalism in Linguistics
Author: René DirvenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027215243
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical, descriptive and applied issues from a functional point of view, testifying of the very wide-spread and in-depth impact of functionalist thought on the present-day linguistic scene.