Teaching discourse intonation with narrative  

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Beaken, Mike

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 63 no. 4 (Oct. 2009), page 342-352 .
Topik: Teaching discourse; narrative; discourse intonation
Fulltext: 2009.4.342.full.pdf (106.81KB)

Isi artikel

Brazil’s system of discourse intonation (DI) is critically appraised, and some shortcomings are described. Modi?cations to DI are suggested, the most important being to recognize that tones have meanings derived from two functions: ?rstly to indicate the distribution of knowledge between speaker and listener—the analysis of tone in yes/no questions is crucial here; secondly to indicate the respective viewpoints of speaker and listener. With these modi?cations, a simple system of four basic tones can be constructed. This enables meaningful readings of simple narrative. Narrative is proposed as a register that can be used effectively to teach the basics of English intonation, with a suggested method.

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