Intonation in English and Czech Dialogues.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (122 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Intonation and prosodic systems -- 1.1 The intonation system of English -- 1.1.1 Identifi cation of the tone unit -- 1.1.2 The internal structure of the tone unit -- 1.1.3 Degrees of prosodic prominence -- 1.1.4 The nucleus -- 1.1.5 The prosodic prominence of successive nuclei -- 1.2 The intonation system of Czech -- 1.2.1 Identifi cation of the utterance unit -- 1.2.2 The internal structure of the utterance unit -- 1.2.3 Degrees of prosodic prominence -- 1.2.4 The intonation centre -- 1.2.5 The prosodic prominence of successive intonation centres -- 1.3 Common features of the English and Czech intonation systems -- 2 The role of intonation in functional sentence perspective -- 2.1 The sentence as a fi eld of distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism -- 2.2 The non-prosodic factors of FSP -- 2.2.1 The linear modifi cation factor -- 2.2.2 The contextual factor -- 2.2.3 The semantic factor -- 2.3 Communicative units -- 2.3.1 Thematic units -- 2.3.2. Transitional units -- 2.3.3 Rhematic units -- 2.3.4 The hierarchy of communicative units and the scale of dynamic semantic functions -- 2.4 The prosodic factor of FSP -- 3 Analysis of English and Czech intonation -- 3.1 Description of the research material -- 3.1.1 Scripted texts (Protest-Cz and Protest-En) -- 3.1.2 Non-scripted texts (Dialogue-Cz and Dialogue-En) -- 3.2 Prosodic transcription -- 3.2.1. Transcription of Protest-Cz, Protest-En and Dialogue-Cz -- 3.2.2. Transcription of Dialogue-En -- 3.3 Description of the database -- 4 Comparison of English and Czech intonation -- 4.1 Length of the tone unit -- 4.2 Position of the nucleus in a tone unit -- 4.3 Word class functions of nucleus bearers -- 4.4 FSP functions of nucleus bearers -- 4.5 Pitch patterns of nuclei -- 4.5.1 Declarative sentences -- 4.5.2 Yes-no questions. 4.5.3 Wh-questions -- 4.5.4 Final pitch movement -- 5. Summary -- References -- Appendix -- Index.