Intonation in the Grammar of English
The course will introduce participants to the rich and complex way that unconscious rises and falls in our voices play as important a role in our sentences as the choice and ordering of our words. . It will be based on the recently published Intonation in the Grammar of English (http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/showbook.asp?bkid=7&keyword). Copies of the text will be available from UBC Bookstore.
In addition the course will introduce PRAAT and ELAN, excellent tools which can be used in virtually any computer for very sophisticated phonetic (and phonemic and lexicogrammatical and semantic and contextual) analysis. The course will make extensive use of these to introduce the patterns of intonation.
WagSoft Systemic Network Editor (http://www.wagsoft.com/Grapher/index.html) will be introduced and used to work with various networks in Halliday-Greaves.
Bill Greaves is Emeritus Professor at York University in Toronto, where he is a member of the Glendon College English Department and Linguistics Program, and of the Graduate Programme in English.
