Systemic phonology : recent studies in English / edited by Wendy L. Bowcher and Bradley A. Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Wendy L. Bowcher,Bradley A. Smith -- Part A. Intonation: Construing the textual metafunction : -- 1. An investigation of how intonation helps signal information structure / Gerard O'Grady -- 2. Creating a parallel universe: Mode and the textual metafunction in the study of one news story / Annabelle Lukin -- 3. Intonation: Signal of information peaks / Shan Zhu -- 4. A multi-stratal approach to paragraph-like organization in lectures / Kazuyoshi Iwamoto -- Part B. The interface between written and spoken language : -- 5. The black hole in graphology / Martin Davies -- 6. The spoken interpretation of written text / Michael Cummings -- Part C. The interface between music and language : -- 7. A note for -ed: Comments on the treatment of -ed in Handel's Messiah / David Banks -- 8. A comparative analysis of the rap and the sung voice: Perspectives from systemic phonology, social semiotics and music studies / David Caldwell -- Part D. Modelling intonation : -- 9. Towards a systemic presentation of the word phonology of English / Paul Tench -- 10. Digital phonology: Systemic perspectives / Bradley A. Smith,Stefano Fasciani,Kay L. O'Halloran -- 11. The meanings and forms of intonation and punctuation in English: The concepts required for an explicit model / Robin Fawcett -- Part E. Interacting with systemic phonology : -- 12. 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 Southworth Greaves.

"This long-awaited volume presents thirteen original contributions by some of the leading scholars in Systemic Phonology. It presents both theoretical and applied studies with analyses of wide-ranging texts including news readings, children's stories, literary classics, classroom discourse, and sung texts. It also includes some theoretical contributions, such as an explication of the generative model of intonation and punctuation of the Cardiff School of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The volume closes with an interactive chapter where readers can listen to, read, and obtain a first-hand guided experience of analysing texts using the systemic model of intonation. Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English is of value to scholars and students 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."--Publisher's website.