Intonation and Meaning

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody - stress, phrasing, and melody - and interpretation - felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis. Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances by changing the location of stress or of pauses, and by choosing the melody of their sentences. Although these factors often do not change the literal meaning of what is said, linguists have in recent years found tools and models to David Ormerod is Professor of Criminal Justice, at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of numerous journal articles and books including Smith and Hogan Criminal Law (12th ed 2008); Fraud Law and Practice (2008) with Clare Montgomery QC; Smith's Law of Theft (9th ed 2007) with David Williams QC. David is Editor-in-Chief of Blackstone's Criminal Practice; Criminal Law Review Cases Editor; and serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of legal journals. He lecturesre gularly to the profession and for the Judicial Studies Board. He has acted as a consultant to the Law Commission, Home Office and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He is a barrister in the chambers of David Etherington QC, 18 Red Lion Court, and is a member of the Criminal Justice Council.AGReview from previous edition "The extracts selected are well chose