Intro -- Contents -- Guest Contributors -- Transcription Symbols and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Prosody and Spoken Discourse -- PART I: Theoretical Background -- 2. Intonational Meaning -- 3. Stress, Rhythm, and Paralanguage -- PART II: Applications to Discourse Analysis -- 4. Intonation, Mental Representation, and Coherence -- Sample Analysis: What Can Pitch Accents Tell Us about Learning? -- 5. Prosody as a Discourse Marker -- Sample Analysis: Intonation in Discourse Markers-The Case of Anyway -- 6. Intonation and Speech Act Theory -- Sample Analysis: Intonation as a Marker of Illocutionary Force in Legal Examination Tag Questions -- 7. Prosody in the Study of Conversation -- Sample Analysis: A Time-Based Model of Conversation -- 8. Prosody in Oral Narratives -- Sample Analysis: Pitch, Evaluation, and Quoted Speech -- 9. Prosody in Second-Language Discourse -- Sample Analysis: Hesitation Phenomena in Second-Language Fluency -- 10. Conclusion -- Appendix: Description of Discourse Data Corpora -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Recently there has been a growing interest among discourse analysts in incorporating prosody into the analysis of spoken language. Wennerstrom considers the role of prosody in a variety of discourse genres and offers an over-all framework within which future analysis might continue.

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