Intonation and meaning / Daniel Büring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Büring, Daniel, author.

Series:

Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics.

Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intonation (Phonetics).

Connotation (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This volume examines the interplay between prosody - stress, phrasing and melody - and interpretation - felicity in discourse, inferences and emphasis. It presents the main phenomena involved and introduces current formal analyses of prosodic structure, relevant aspects of discourse structure, intonational meaning and the relations between them.

Contents:

General prefance

Preface

List of abbreviations

1. Prominence, accent, focus

2. Focus and givenness in flexible accent languages

3. Focus and givenness theories

4. More on focus/givenness representation

5. More on the semantics of focus and givenness

6. Prosodic structure

7. Prosodic structure and information structure

8. More on focus/givenness realization

9. The meaning of tones

Association with focus

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780191826603

0-19-182660-X

0-19-108657-6