Intonation and Meaning Paperback / softback
by Daniel (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Vienna) Buring
Part of the Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis.
Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances by changing the location of stress or of pauses, and by choosing the melody of their sentences.
Although these factors often do not change the literal meaning of what is said, linguists have in recent years found tools and models to describe these more elusive aspects of linguistic meaning.
This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis.
Daniel Büring presents the main phenomena involved, and introduces the details of current formal analyses of prosodic structure, relevant aspects of discourse structure, intonational meaning, and, most importantly, the relations between them.
He explains and compares the most influential theories in these areas, and outlines the questions that remain open for future research. This wide-ranging book involves aspects of phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and will be of interest to researchers and students in all of these fields, from advanced undergraduate level upwards.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/07/2016
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- ISBN:9780199226276
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/07/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199226276
