Intonation and Meaning

Zusatztext Daniel Büring's book is both a guide for the perplexed and a substantial original contribution to theory in the semantics and pragmatics of intonation and information structure. It will constitute an indispensable reference point for all researchers in the area. Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This book 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. Zusammenfassung This book 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Buring, Daniel (Professor of Linguistics Buring, Daniel Büring
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2016
• EAN: 9780199226276
• ISBN: 978-0-19-922627-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Surveys in Semantics an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Phonetik, Phonologie, Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics