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Theory and Practice of Teaching Discourse Intonation
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Chapman, Mark – ELT Journal, 2007
Discourse intonation attempts to explain how intonation patterns in English affect the communicative value of speech, through the use of falling and rising tones along with changes in pitch. The teaching of intonation seems to sit naturally with communicative language learning, but it is not an easy aspect of English to incorporate into the EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intonation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Using Patterned Discourse in the Language of Law and Medicine.
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Hoppe, Ronald A.; Kess, Joseph F. – 1987
A discussion of discourse patterns in the professional interactions of lawyers and physicians suggests that these encounters are programmatic exchanges to which the psycholinguistic rules of processing and inference can be applied. In these professions, the constraints of normal discourse patterns interact with the conventions of giving and…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries