The systems, notation, and explanatory apparatus of Discourse Intonation (DI) have been used in the study of a wide variety of speech styles: classroom discourse, doctor-patient discourse, poetry readings, university lectures, casual conversation, and many others. DI has also been used in research projects to make data-bases of speech easier to interrogate.
Increasingly, DI is being used to investigate the properties of non-standard accents of English: these include Malaysian and Singaporean English, Hong Kong English, and Rhondda Valleys English. This area of CDIS will feature specially written articles concerning such applications of DI.
The first, by Christine Goh, on Malaysian and Singaporean English is available here (a pdf 52k document).
In the future, there will be papers on the application of DI to other languages.
Rod Walters has written the second 'Applications of Discourse Intonation'. Rod is a Senior Lecturer at The University of Glamorgan. He obtained both a PGCE and an MA from the University of Birmingham. His doctorate (University of Glamorgan) was on Dialect Phonology in Rhondda Valleys English.
The Rhondda Valleys lie just north of Cardiff in South Wales. They were home to a huge coal-mining industry which was at its height between 1800 and 1950.
You can download his paper (a 585k pdf document) here.