Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English

This long-awaited volume presents thirteen original contributions by some of the leading scholars in Systemic Phonology. It presents both theoretical and applied studies with analyses of wide-ranging texts including news readings, children’s stories, literary classics, classroom discourse, and sung texts. It also includes some theoretical contributions, such as an explication of the generative model of intonation and punctuation of the Cardiff School of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The volume closes with an interactive chapter where readers can listen to, read, and obtain a first-hand guided experience of analysing texts using the systemic model of intonation.