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Intonation structure of English - Coggle Diagram
Intonation structure of English
DEFINITIONS of INTONATION
The pitch pattern of a sentence, which distinguishes kinds of sentences or speakers of different language cultures;
A language universal
A powerful means human intercommunication
A manner of producing or uttering tones, especially with regard to accuracy of pitch.
The sound pattern of phrases and sentences produced by pitch variation in the voice.
FUNCTIONS of INTONATION by D. CRYSTAL
Emotional
Grammatical
Information structure
Textual
Psychological
Indexical
FUNCTIONS INTONATION by P. ROACH
Attitudinal
Accentual
Grammatical
Discourse
FUNCTIONS of INTONATION
To structure the information content
To determine the speech function of a phrase
To convey connotational meanings of 'attitude"
Communicative function
To structure a text
To differentiate the meaning of textual units
To characterize a particular style or variety of oral speech
Stylistic function
INTONATION. CONTOUR ANALYSIS APPROACH
Contour analysis (by H. Sweet, D. Jones, G. Palmer, L. Armstrong, I. Ward, R. Kingdon, J. O'Connor, A. Gimson and others)
The smallest unit to which linguistic meaning can be attached is a tone-group;
Intonation consists of basic functional 'blocks".
INTONATION. GRAMMATICAL APPROACH
Intonation is a complex of three systemic variables: tonality, tonicity and tone, which are connected with grammatical categories;
Based on the syntactical function of intonation.