The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis

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Oxford University Press, Nov 1, 2001 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 344 pages
Recently there has been a growing interest among discourse analysts in incorporating prosody into the analysis of spoken language. Wennerstrom considers the role of prosody in a variety of discourse genres and offers an over-all framework within which future analysis might continue.
 

Contents

Prosody and Spoken Discourse
3
Theoretical Background
15
Applications to Discourse Analysis
65
Description of Discourse Data Corpora
265
Glossary
271
Notes
277
Bibliography
283
Index
299
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