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Intonation in the Grammar of English
Halliday, M.a.k.; Greaves, William S.
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Paperback. Series: Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
Intonation in the Grammar of English is written for scholars interested in language but not necessarily linguists or phoneticians. An introduction covers speech sound, locating it in relation to other phenomena and disciplines, discussing its representation and interpretation, and introducing the systems and strata which frame its analysis in terms of systemic functional linguistics. The three kinds of meaning -- textual meaning (relating language to its ever changing context), interpersonal meaning (allowing us to enact our social exchanges with others) and ideational meaning (construing the logic through which we represent the world we live in) -- are each ... Read more
Intonation in the Grammar of English is written for scholars interested in language but not necessarily linguists or phoneticians. An introduction covers speech sound, locating it in relation to other phenomena and disciplines, discussing its representation and interpretation, and introducing the systems and strata which frame its analysis in terms of systemic functional linguistics. The three kinds of meaning -- textual meaning (relating language to its ever changing context), interpersonal meaning (allowing us to enact our social exchanges with others) and ideational meaning (construing the logic through which we represent the world we live in) -- are each ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904768159
SKU
V9781904768159
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About Halliday, M.a.k.; Greaves, William S.
M.A.K. Halliday was born in Yorkshire in 1925. He was trained in Chinese for war service with the British army; studied in China, taught Chinese in Britain for a number of years, then moved into linguistics, becoming in 1965 Professor of General Linguistics at University College London. In 1975 he was appointed Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of ... Read more
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