LINGUIST List 21.4939 Tue Dec 07 2010 Books: Discourse Analysis/Text/Corpus Linguistics: O'Grady Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Jennifer Tighe , Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: O'Grady Message 1: Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: O'Grady Date: 04-Oct-2010 From: Jennifer Tighe <jtighecontinuumbooks.com> Subject: Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: O'Grady E-mail this message to a friend Title: Grammar of Spoken English Discourse Subtitle: The Intonation of Increments Series Title: Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics Published: 2010 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd                 http://www.continuumbooks.com Book URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=136386&SearchType=Basic Author: Gerard Nigel O'Grady Electronic: ISBN: 9781441174444 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 75.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9781441147172 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 75.00 Abstract: David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at "A Grammar Of Speech" (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and tests the description of used language against a spoken corpus. He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics study, notably concerning phrases and lexical items larger than single orthographic words and ellipsis. He demonstrates the added communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation ('Key' and 'Termination') bring to the grammar. O'Grady reviews the literature and covers the theory before moving on to a practical, analytic section. His final chapter reviews the arguments, maps the road ahead and lays out the practical applications of the grammar. The book will be of great interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL. "Taking David Brazil's ground-breaking work on the grammar of speech as a starting point, O'Grady makes an important contribution to the analysis of unfolding real-time language. He assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Brazil's grammar and goes on to offer a developed version, using evidence from a corpus of read aloud speech. Perhaps his main contribution is in placing intonation more centrally in the description. His work will be of relevance to all whose interests are in understanding speech as process rather than product and the role of intonation in discourse." Martin Hewings, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Language Documentation                             Morphology                             Syntax                             Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=50716 New! 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