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David Brazil

David Brazil was born on 1st May 1925, and died on 25th September 1995. After serving in the RAF, he became a teacher of English. He became a research fellow at The University of Birmingham in the 1970s, and subsequently a member of staff in the Department of English. He worked with John Sinclair and Malcolm Coulthard on the famous Discourse Analysis research projects. There is a longer biography here.

David Brazil's principal publications were:

Discourse Intonation and Language Teaching. (1980) Longman. (With Coulthard & Johns).

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English (1985/1997) University of Birmingham/Cambridge University Press

Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English (1994) Cambridge University Press

A Grammar of Speech (1995) Oxford University Press

But he wrote many articles which you can find listed in a bibliography.

David Brazil
1925-1995