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Title |
Title of document |
The Prosodic Realisation of Given and New Information - Information Structure in Spoken English |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Gerard O'Grady; Cardiff University; |
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Subject |
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Linguistics |
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Keyword(s) |
prosody; information structure; spoken English; Halliday; tonic item; metafunction; Davidse; systemic functional linguistics; SFL; discourse |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
prosody; systemic functional linguistics |
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Description |
Abstract |
Chapter 3 focuses on the system of Information. It details the importance of tonality and tonicity in the speaker’s projection of which lexical items are Given and which are New. Close examination of tonality choices illustrates that while tone groups/information units are often coterminous with clauses, it is more accurate to say that they also frequently correspond to clausal cores and sub-clausal units. Hence there will be more tone groups/information units than clauses in a text. This fact entails that New elements may occur at any point within a clause. While there is strong evidence equating tone groups with information units and the tonic syllable with Focus, the informational status of pre-tonic lexical items is far less clear. One of the reasons for this it that the concept of recoverability is itself on close examination not entirely clear. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-Nov-2024 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/43960 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.43960 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Information Structure in Spoken English |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |