Title Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse : a Sociolinguistic Perspective.

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Summary	This study is a phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English, a postcolonial variety of English. Its focus is on the usage of specific tones, paratone and the intonational marking of the information status in discourse. Two main descriptive frameworks are used, namely the Discourse Intonation and the Auto-Segmental Metrical frameworks. Findings of the study are based on the auditory and acoustic analyses of natural conversation as well as read speech and, with relation to the sociol ...
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195).
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Subject	English language -- Cameroon -- Intonation.
	English language.
	Cameroon.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Ouafeu, Yves Talla Sando. Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse : A Sociolinguistic Perspective. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2010 9781443819299
ISBN	9781443820400 (electronic book)
	1443820407 (electronic book)
	9781443819299 (cased)
	1443819298 (cased)
	1282585452
	9781282585454
Standard No.	9786612585456