Description: Grammar of Spoken English Discourse : The Intonation of Increments, Paperback by O'grady, Gerard, ISBN 1441148485, ISBN-13 9781441148483, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK
David Brazils pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard OGrady picks up the baton in this book and teststhedescription of usedlanguageagainst 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 theadded communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation (Key and Termination) bring to the grammar.
OGrady reviews the literature andcovers the theorybefore 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. Th will be of great interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.
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Book Title: Grammar of Spoken English Discourse : The Intonation of Increment
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: the Intonation of Increments
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 234 mm
Type: Study Guide
Author: Dr Gerard O'grady
Subject Area: Data Analysis
Series: Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
