Contrastive modelling of the intonation of recapitulatory echo interrogative sentences in modern American English and Cuban Spanish

Human speech communication is rich in expressive stylistic, syntactic, lexical and discourse devices which are commonly used to express feelings, attitudes and volitions. Supported by the important contributions of CDA, discourse intonation, discourse semantics and pragmatics this dissertation prese...

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Main Author: Garcia Romero, Gilberto
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13527/