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LINGUIST List 20.223

Sat Jan 24 2009

Books: Discourse Analysis/Phonology: Cheng, Greaves, Warren

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: Cheng, Greaves, Warren
Message 1: A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: Cheng, Greaves, Warren
Date: 22-Jan-2009
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: Cheng, Greaves, Warren
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Title: A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation
Subtitle: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 32
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2032

Author: Winnie Cheng
Author: Chris Greaves
Author: Martin Warren
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289872 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289872 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027223067 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027223067 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:

The book is the first to apply David Brazil's Discourse Intonation systems
(prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of
authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of
Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words
consisting of four sub-corpora of equal size, namely academic,
conversation, business and public. The participants are all adults and
typically have either Cantonese or English as their first language. The
four Discourse Intonation systems are described in terms of how the system
works and how they are manifested in the corpus, both across the
sub-corpora and also across speakers in the corpus. The book is accompanied
with a CD containing the prosodically transcribed corpus together with
iConc which is the software designed and written specifically to
interrogate the HKCSE (prosodic). The issues raised and discussed are all
of importance in Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Disco
urse Analysis, Discourse Intonation, Pragmatics, and Intercultural
Communication.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                            Linguistic Theories
                            Phonology
                            Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng )

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