{"product_id":"intonation-in-text-and-discourse-1","title":"Intonation in Text and Discourse","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is clear that a printed text provides the reader with more information than the words alone. This includes punctuation marks, capitalisation, paragraphs, headings and sub-headings, all of which help the reader to understand how the words are organised into sentences, and sentences are organised into a coherent text. In a spoken text, this typographical information is necessarily absent. So how do readers and speakers provide equivalent information to the listener?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntonation in Text and Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e describes the way in which speech melody, or intonation, is used to signal the structure of spoken texts. It examines the role of intonation in clarifying the relationship between successive utterances, from close cohesive ties ('middles') to major breaks for a new topic ('ends' and 'beginnings').\u003cbr\u003eThe book is concerned chiefly with the intonational structuring of read or prepared monologue, but also devotes a chapter to current developments in the analysis of intonation in conversation. It describes not only how intonation is used to organise systematic turn-taking but also how it can signal greater or lesser degrees of co-operativeness. It addresses finally the complex issue of attitudinal intonation - the elusive 'tone of voice'.\u003cbr\u003eThe first book on discourse intonation to deal with such a wide variety of naturally-occurring spoken data,\u003cem\u003e Intonation in Text and Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e will be of great interest to students, lecturers and researchers of intonation and all aspects of spoken discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54245427413336,"sku":"9780582234741","price":93.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780582234741.jpg?v=1777739421","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/intonation-in-text-and-discourse-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}