Intonation in the Grammar of English - M.A.K. Halliday †
4 The linguistic environment of intonation
Intonation in the Grammar of English - M.A.K. Halliday †
M.A.K. Halliday † [+]
University of Sydney (Emeritus)
M.A.K. Halliday, who died in April 2018, was born in Yorkshire in 1925. He was trained in Chinese for war service with the British army; studied in China, taught Chinese in Britain for a number of years, then moved into linguistics, becoming in 1965 Professor of General Linguistics at University College London. In 1975 he was appointed Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, where he remained until his retirement.
William S. Greaves † [+]
York University, Toronto
William S. Greaves, who died in September, 2014, was Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Department of English, Glendon College, York University, Toronto.
Description
In this chapter we shift our angle of vision so as to foreground the meanings rather than the sounds. The authors remain concerned mainly with those meanings that are, at least in part, realized by choices in intonation. But first they try to show how the meanings themselves are organized as systems of choice, and how meanings that are realized prosodically fit in to the general picture of the semantics and grammar of English.