Choice in Language - Applications in Text Analysis - Gerard O'Grady
5 Choices in Tony’s talk: Phonological paragraphing,information unit nexuses and the presentation of tone units
Choice in Language - Applications in Text Analysis - Gerard O'Grady
Gerard O'Grady [+]
Cardiff University
Gerard O’Grady is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication (phonology) at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University. His main research interests are intonation, spoken information structure, critical discourse analysis and linear grammars. He is active in the SFL community and co-organized the European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop in 2009. He is also a co-founder of the LinC research network at Cardiff University with Tom Bartlett and Lise Fontaine. His recent publications include two books, A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: The Intonation of Increments (2010) and Key Concepts in Phonetics and Phonology (2012), as well as the article ‘The unfolded imagining of Segolene Royal’ in the Journal of Pragmatics (2011). He co-edited the volumes, Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice (Cambridge 2013) and Choice in Language: Applications in Text Analysis (Equinox 2013).
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This chapter aims to examine the neglected role intonation plays in projecting the texture of a spoken text. Texture refers to the way a text is given unity within the particular context in which it is produced.