Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-297) and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART I Theoretical Background -- 2. Intonational Meaning, 17 -- 3. Stress, Rhythm, and Paralanguage, 46 -- VART II Applications to Discourse Analysis -- 4. Intonation, Mental Representation, and Coherence, 67 -- Sample Analysis: What Can Pitch Accents Tell Us -- about Learning?, 88 -- Prosody as a Discourse Marker, 96 -- Sample Analysis: Intonation in Discourse -- Markers-The Case of Anyway, 117 -- by Kathleen Ferrara -- 6. Intonation and Speech Act Theory, 131 -- Sample Analysis: Intonation as a Marker of -- Illocutionary Force in Legal Examination -- Tag Questions, 160 -- by Philip Gaines -- 7. Prosody in the Study of Conversation, 166 -- Sample Analysis: A Time-Based Model -- of Conversation, 192 -- by Susan Fiksdal -- 8. Prosody in Oral Narratives, 200 -- Sample Analysis: Pitch, Evaluation, -- and Quoted Speech, 221 -- 9. Prosody in Second-Language Discourse, 230 -- Sample Analysis: Hesitation Phenomena -- in Second-Language Fluency, 252 -- by Heidi Riggenbach -- 10. Conclusion, 258 -- Appendix: Description of Discourse Data Corpora, 265 -- Glossary, 271 -- Notes, 277 -- Bibliography, 283 -- Index, 299.

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