A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: The Intonation of Increments

by Gerard O'Grady

Book Overview

David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and tests the description of used language against 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 the added communicative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441147179
• ISBN13: 9781441147172
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"