Introduction / Wendy L. Bowcher and Bradley A. Smith -- Part A: Intonation: Construing the textual metafunction -- An investigation of how intonation helps signal information structure / Gerard O'Grady -- Creating a parallel universe: Mode and the textual metafunction in the study of one news story / Annabelle Lukin -- Intonation: Signal of information peaks / Shan Zhu -- A multi-stratal approach to paragraph-like organization in lectures / Kazuyoshi Iwamoto -- Part B: The interface between written and spoken language -- The black hole in graphology / Martin Davies -- The spoken interpretation of written text / Michael Cummings -- Part C: the interface between music and language -- A note for -ed: Comments on the treatment of -ed in Handel's Messiah / David Banks -- A comparative analysis of the rap and the sung voice: Perspectives from systemic phonology, soical semiotics and music studies / David Caldwell -- Part D: Modelling intonation -- Towards a systemic presentation of the word phonology of English / Paul Tench -- Digital phonology: Systemic perspectives / Brandly A. Smith, Stefano Fasciani and Kay O'Halloran -- The meanings and forms of intonation and punctuation in English: The concepts required for an explicit model / Robin P. Fawcett -- Part E: Interacting with systemic phonology -- Locating the limerick 'Wall Street Irene' and the sonnet 'On his blindness' in the semiotic space between the body as signal generator/receiver and the body as social interactant / William S. Greaves.
Summary:
This long-awaited volume presents thirteen original contributions by some of the leading scholars in Systemic Phonology. The chapters present both theoretical and applied studies with analyses of wide-ranging texts including news readings, children's stories, literary classics, classroom discourse, and sung texts. The volume also includes some theoretical contributions, such as an explication of the generative model of intonation and punctuation of the Cardiff School of SFL. The last chapter in the volume is an interactive chapter where readers can listen to, read, and obtain a first-hand guided experience of analyzing texts using the systemic model of intonation. Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English is of value to scholars and students in the fields of phonology, phonetics, music studies, semiotics, and media studies, and is of particular interest to those working within the Systemic Functional model of language. This volume will also be of interest to any researchers analysing meaning in relation to sound and music. -- Provided by publisher.
