The Music of Everyday Speech Ann Wennerstrom (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington)

Name: The Music of Everyday Speech By Ann Wennerstrom (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington)
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The Music of Everyday Speech by Ann Wennerstrom (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington)

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This volume seeks to establishe an over-all framework for the analysis of the element of prosody into the analysis of spoken language. Using naturally occuring data, the author demonstrates how such an examination can enhance traditional analysis.

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The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis by Ann Wennerstrom (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington)

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.

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In summary, this book provides a wealth of fascinating data illustrating a wide range of intonational phenomena in the analysis of conversations. The text is always exceptionally clear and it makes a highly convincing argument that the analysis of prosody should be central to work on discourse analysis. This book has made an important contribution to the field, especially as it is written in language designed to make it accessible to as many people as possible. It is certain to become widely used and highly valued. * Linguist List *

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CIN0195143221G

ISBN 13

9780195143225

ISBN 10

0195143221

Title

The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis by Ann Wennerstrom (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington)

Author

Ann Wennerstrom (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington)

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Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year published

2001-11-15

Number of pages

338

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