Intonation and Meaning

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-922626-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis. Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances by changing the location of stress or of pauses, and by choosing the melody of their sentences. Although these factors often do not change the literal meaning of what is said, linguists have in recent years found tools and models to describe these more elusive aspects of linguistic meaning. This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis. Daniel Büring presents the main phenomena involved, and introduces the details of current formal analyses of prosodic structure, relevant aspects of discourse structure, intonational meaning, and, most importantly, the relations between them. He explains and compares the most influential theories in these areas, and outlines the questions that remain open for future research.

This wide-ranging book involves aspects of phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and will be of interest to researchers and students in all of these fields, from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Büring, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- General preface

- 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 and information structure

- 8: More on focus/givenness realization

- 9: The meaning of tones

- 10: Association with focus

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Büring is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Vienna, specializing in formal semantics and pragmatics. In addition to his work on various aspects of information structure, he has published on a wide range of topics in semantics and syntax. He is the author of The Meaning of Topic and Focus: The 59th Street Bridge Accent (Routledge, 1997) and Binding Theory (CUP, 2005).