Description
| Summary: | David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and teststhedescription of usedlanguageagainst a spoken corpus. € He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics study, notably concerning phrases and lexical items larger than single orthographic words and ellipsis. He demonstrates theadded communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation ('Key' and 'Termination') bring to the grammar. O'Grady reviews the li.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-250) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9781441174444
1441174443
1282806459
9781282806450
9786612806452
6612806451 |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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