Intonation in the Grammar of English [With CDROM]

by William S. Greaves and M.A.K. Halliday

Book Overview

Intonation in the Grammar of English is written for scholars who are interested in language, but not necessarily linguists or phoneticians. The introduction covers speech sound, locating it in relation to other phenomena and disciplines, discusses its representation and interpretation, and introduces the systems and strata which frame its analysis in terms of systemic functional linguistics. The three kinds of meaning - textual meaning (relating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904768148
• ISBN13: 9781904768142
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"