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This long-awaited volume presents thirteen original contributions by some of the leading scholars in Systemic Phonology. It presents both theoretical and applied studies with analyses of wide-ranging texts including news readings, children’s stories, literary classics, classroom discourse, and sung texts. It also includes some theoretical contributions, such as an explication of the generative model of intonation and punctuation of the Cardiff School of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The volume closes with an interactive chapter where readers can listen to, read, and obtain a first-hand guided experience of analysing texts using the systemic model of intonation.

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Author:   Wendy L. Bowcher ,  Bradley A. Smith
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781845539467

ISBN 10:   184553946
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 June 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Wendy L. Bowcher and Bradley A. Smith PART A: Intonation: Construing the Textual Metafunction 1. An Investigation of how Intonation Helps Signal Information Structure Gerard O'Grady (Cardiff University) 2. Creating a Parallel Universe: Mode and the Textual Metafunction in the Study of One News Story Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University) 3. Intonation: Signal of Information Peaks Shan Zhu (Sun Yat-sen University) 4. A Multi-stratal Approach to a Paragraph-like Organisation in Lectures Kazuyoshi Iwamoto (Kyorin University) PART B: The Interface between Written and Spoken Language 5. The Black Hole in Graphology Martin Davies (University of Stirling, retired) 6. The Spoken Interpretation of Written Text Michael Cummings (York University, Canada) 7. Meaningful Reading: Intonation Choices by Native and non-Native English Speakers Reading The Giving Tree Wendy L. Bowcher and Zhu Shan PART C: The Interface between Music and Language 8. A Note for - ed: Comments on the Treatment of - ed in Handel's Messiah David Banks (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale) 9. A Comparative Analysis of the Rap and Sung Voice: Perspectives from Systemic Phonology, Social Semiotics, and Music Studies David Caldwell (National Institute of Education, Singapore) PART D: Modelling Intonation 10. Towards a Systemic Presentation of the Word Phonology of English Paul Tench (Cardiff University) 11. Digital Phonology: Systemic Perspectives Bradley A. Smith, Stefano Fasciani, and Kay O'Halloran (all at The National University of Singapore) 12. The Meanings and Form of Intonation and Punctuation in English: The Concepts Required for an Explicit Model Robin Fawcett (Cardiff University) PART E: Interacting with Systemic Phonology 13. Locating the Limerick Wall Street Irene and the Sonnet On His Blindness in the Semiotic Space between the Body as Signal Generator/Receiver and the Body as Social Interactant William S. Greaves (York University, Canada) Index

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Wendy L. Bowcher is a Professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Bradley A. Smith is an independent researcher, and collaborator with the Multimodal Analysis Laboratory at the National University of Singapore on the development of software for the study of multimodal discourse.

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