Intonation and Its Uses: Melody in Grammar and Discourse

by Dwight Bolinger

Overview

A Stanford UniversityPress classic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804715355
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	08/01/1989
Edition description:	1
Pages:	484
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. Variation: 1. Age and sex 2. Dialect and language Part II. Intonation and Grammar: Clauses and Above: 3. Crosscurrents 4. Demarcation 5. Questions 6. Nonquestions 7. Dependent clauses and other dependencies Part III. Intonation and Grammar: Below the Clause: 8. Accent and morphology 9. Accent in higher units 10. Exclamations and interjections 11. 'Well' Part IV. Intonation and Logic: 12. Is there an intonation of 'contrast'? 13. Accent and entailment 14. accent and denial 15. An intonation of factuality? 16. A practical case: broadcast prosody Appendixes Reference matter.