A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic) (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)

The Book Is The First To Apply David Brazil's Discourse Intonation Systems (prominence, Tone, Key And Termination) To The Study Of A Corpus Of Authentic, Naturally-occurring Spoken Discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus Of Spoken English (prosodic) Is Made Up Of Approximately One Million Words Consisting Of Four Sub-corpora Of Equal Size, Namely Academic, Conversation, Business And Public. The Participants Are All Adults And Typically Have Either Cantonese Or English As Their First Language. The Four Discourse Intonation Systems Are Described In Terms Of How The System Works And How They Are Manifested In The Corpus, Both Across The Sub-corpora And Also Across Speakers In The Corpus. The Book Is Accompanied With A Cd Containing The Prosodically Transcribed Corpus Together With Iconc Which Is The Software Designed And Written Specifically To Interrogate The Hkcse (prosodic). The Issues Raised And Discussed Are All Of Importance In Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Intonation, Pragmatics, And Intercultural Communication.--jacket. Discourse Intonation Systems -- Transcribing The Hong Kong Corpus Of Spoken English (hkcse) -- The Iconic Concordancing Program -- Tone Units -- Prominence -- Tones -- Key And Termination. Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves, Martin Warren. Cd Contains The Prosodically Transcribed Corpus Together With Iconc Which Is The Software Designed And Written Specifically To Interrogate The Hkcse (prosodic). Includes Bibliographical References (p. [199]-205) And Indexes. A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation......Page 2 Editorial page ......Page 3 Title page ......Page 4 LCC data ......Page 5 Dedication ......Page 6 Table of contents......Page 8 Acknowledgement......Page 12 Background......Page 14 The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE)......Page 15 Collection of data for HKCSE......Page 17 Composition of HKCSE (prosodic)......Page 18 Speaker characteristics......Page 20 Structure of the book......Page 23 Discourse intonation framework......Page 24 Four systems of speaker intonational choices......Page 27 Tone unit......Page 28 Prominence, key and termination......Page 29 Tone choice: proclaiming and referring......Page 34 Tone choice: dominance and control......Page 36 Orientation......Page 38 Declarative-mood questions......Page 39 Yes-no questions......Page 40 Information questions......Page 42 Conclusion......Page 43 Transcribing the HKCSE (prosodic)......Page 44 Problems encountered in transcribing HKCSE (prosodic)......Page 50 Conclusion......Page 52 The Corpus Menu......Page 54 The intonation menu: Tone units......Page 57 The intonation menu: Key (ONLY)......Page 61 The intonation menu: Key + Termination......Page 63 The intonation menu: Prominence......Page 64 The concordance menu: Search......Page 66 The concordance menu: Discourse Intonation System/Word Search......Page 67 The Statistics Menu......Page 69 The Statistics Menu: Unique Words......Page 71 The Statistics Menu: Compare Unique Words Lists......Page 72 Conclusion......Page 73 Distribution of size of tone units......Page 74 Single word tone units......Page 79 Tone unit boundaries and disambiguation......Page 81 Alternative ‘or’......Page 85 Approximative versus specific use of numerals......Page 87 Tone unit boundaries and Linear Unit grammar......Page 88 Tone unit boundaries, Linear Unit Grammar and back-channels......Page 92 Tone unit boundaries and extended collocations......Page 93 Conclusions......Page 95 Distribution of prominences......Page 98 Opposites......Page 103 “Inevitability”......Page 104 Speakers’ differing perspectives......Page 106 Double-prominence on one word......Page 107 Convergence......Page 109 Vague use of numbers......Page 115 Pre-modification of vague determiners......Page 118 Lexical cohesion......Page 120 Word associations......Page 124 Pronoun prominence......Page 126 Word class and frequency......Page 129 Conclusions......Page 135 Introduction......Page 138 Distribution of tones across speakers and sub-corpora......Page 139 Proclaiming and referring tones......Page 142 Functions of the level tone......Page 144 Context 1......Page 145 Context 2......Page 148 Frequencies of use of the level tone for Contexts 1 and 2......Page 154 Disambiguation and tones......Page 155 Declarative-mood questions......Page 157 Question types and tone choice......Page 161 Speaker dominance and control......Page 162 Continuative use of the rise tone......Page 164 Use of the rise tone to exert pressure on hearer to speak......Page 165 Use of the rise tone to openly remind the hearer(s) of common ground......Page 166 Change in the speaker’s world view......Page 167 Distribution of the rise and the rise-fall tones across discourse types......Page 169 Conclusions......Page 171 Introduction......Page 174 Distribution of key and termination across the HKCSE (prosodic)......Page 175 Patterns of usage......Page 179 Contrastive use......Page 180 Disagreements......Page 182 Particularising use of high key ......Page 188 Topic development......Page 189 Endings......Page 191 Equative......Page 192 Pitch concord and discord......Page 194 Pitch discord......Page 198 Frequency distribution of pitch concord and discord......Page 200 Most frequent word classes in single word tone units......Page 201 Conclusions......Page 203 Concluding comments......Page 206 Implications for future research......Page 208 Implications for learning and teaching ......Page 209 References......Page 212 HKCSE-Related scholarly output to date......Page 220 Distribution of words......Page 224 Tone units......Page 228 Prominence......Page 270 Tones......Page 284 Key and termination......Page 304 Author index......Page 332 Subject index......Page 334 The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL)......Page 340